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Scrofula, Tumors, Pyspepsia, Nerv- Reason, Cheeirol- Uncleanness, Vulgar- 

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HEALTH AND CHARACTER: 



DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT 



— . <c B Y o— — 

JOSEPH SIMMS, M.D., of NEW YORK. 

AUTHOR OF NATURE'S REVELATIONS OF CHARACTER," A LARGE WORK ON 

PHYSIOGNOMY, " A NEW PHYSIOGNOMICAL CHART," "A BOOK 

OF SCIENTIFIC LECTURES," ETC, ETC. 






Revised and Reprinted in 1879. 

Entered according to Act of Congress, August 2d, 1879, by J. Simms, M. D., in the office of the Librarian 
of Congress, at Washington, D. C, U. S. A. 

ALL EIGHTS RESERVED. 



Natwe's Revelations of Character; or, Physiognomy Illustrated. 

By JOSEPH SIMMS, M.D. 

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much ability, so much that is estimable and worthy of note, the book is certain to provoke 
-Brighton l>aihj \ 
5ft»e I itand the human nature which passes before them daily, ve can, 

nil Dr. Minims' volume — North British Daily Mail, Glasgow. 
- tins voluminous bonk, while < very page isrephte with gcientific observations 
that at < oneof the lnoel Interesting and valuable publications produced in modern times. — 

■i don. 
of tin- most Important contributions to the science of physiognomy, which has appeared for 
inj hundred nsefoJ observations, ilhihtrated bv a large number of wood-cuts. 
r and simple in style, an 1 well worth its coBt.-TAf City Press, London. 

button to t iuy is the most important that has appeared for 

- much that is valuable and interest in -{"in this work, and we hope it will attain a large 
circulation in tin- country, i.s it i- Calculated to be useful to the beginner as well as to the advanced student 
m pin The Ikiybrtak, Lon 

and a great traveller, well versed in science in its various departments, 

hi. st Interesting lecturers we have. There is nothing in this book which offends 

It is a harmless as well as a valuable contribution to literature, and one which should 

b< in the library "f every student ol human nature, every phrenologist and physiognomist.— Human Nature, 

. 

Is life to the study of physiognomy, and for this purpose has travelled 

overall partu of the Inited 8tates and Europe. He has produced a book embodying the. result of a vast 

n> in that universally useful science, physiognomy. The result is a pleasant book, 

struct, and enlighten the mind, and purify the affections. The Rock, London (a religious 

work, whilst a treatise on physiognomy, is something far more ; it embodies the reBult of nearly 

: stud} and observation by the author. This we may sav, the student of anatomy would 

1,arn "• Blmms. With an industry, which it is to be hoped the sale of this book will amply 

tor has taken his subjects for illustration from every quarter of the globe, and 

man. but also from members Of the brute creation. — The T-mperanceSt.tr. London. 

»ve noticed a certain correspondence between the configuration of living 

character or disposition possessed by them; and that this correspondence should 

n in humanity is only what might be expected. Yet it cannot be denied that 

['his work contains evidence of shrewd observation on the part of its 

i copmus illustrations of the subject-matter, by the portraiture of individuals 

tvorable or unfavorable, from the faces we meet, and vet, with this general 

. I aracter by the face, there are few who take the trouble to become acquainted 

• Inch underlie the s-ience of physiognomy. We are glad, therefore, to see a work on 

mm*, in which, while treating the Bubject in a scientific spirit, he seeks to make it 

interest the general reader. The style is good, the composition simple, and the 

lland. 

ik treating not only of noses and other features of the face, but of the 

- the bodily frame so con. luted to the mental and moral constitution of 

I, it may always be found to afford sure indications of what that mental 

i is It would unquestionably be of great Importance for any man to possess this 

itnik' the characters of all around him, and might bo the means oi wfety iu 

ave had mu.h pi. asure in reading l>r himms" book, and in looking at the many 

h it is illustrated. Tin re is m the hook unquestionably much of original and curious 

Oram that we can discover, and he can even 

til with his knowing hov -tates in 

ad meauing of its own -if we could only find them 

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' rending < • us,- to those who 

• ol h log made scientific, which we think 
me a definite and useful 

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN— A Philosophical and Patient Face, evincing Small Physical Order 

and icortlty Economy. 



A RECORD OF THE HEALTH AND CHARACTER 



OF 



MARKED BY J. SIMMS, M.D. 



N. B. This book is intended only for whom it is marked; his or her state of health and 
how to improve it; or the manner of regaining it if lost. It points out also the weak traits 
of character and the best means of strengthening them; the excesses and the modes of re- 
pressing them. The pursuit for which a person is by nature best adapted; the conjugal or 
matrimonial partner most suitable to conduce to happy results, etc. 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 




Ki.V Dfi VAUGHN, AN EMINENT ENGLISHMAN. 



FACIAL MANIFESTATIONS OF THE FIVE FORMS. 



Mid indicated by Ho. 1, is the 

r< pits, ate Form II. the Tho- 



Thnt - t of the al . , by the lin< 

'•»' ntation of Form I the abdominal Form. 

I t'\ tin- lin< . iiml ln.iik. .1 2, 
■ in. 

Btl Pons HI. the Mnsrulnran.l Fibroid Form. 

erinced by the else of that part of the face enclosed 
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abov< the lin< where Form V, the 
• nt. 

ii on the ti. 






HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 3 

I.— Abdominal Form- 

Large Abdomen, Wide Mouth, Round Clan, Puffed Cheeks and Lower Face, Abundance of Soft 
Flesh, Sttepy-Lookirtg Eyes, blow Movements, Boxirid Bxdld. 
Note.— The first two forms in this book belong to the vegetative department of man; all 
vegetable life digests, breathes, has circulation and some degree of warmth; the last three 
forms belong to the animal nature of mau, consisting of motion, strength and feeling. 

SUBDIVISIONS OF THE ABDOMINAL FORM. 
As nature has divided the abdominal form into two great departments, the stomach and 
liver, it is well to recognize and follow that natural division in analyzing character; but the 
true student of nature will make no divisions where nature * has none. When the 
tkmaeh predominates in action and strength over the liver, in mankind, the cheeks appear 
sunken, the temples are always somewhat and sometimes greatly sunken, the skin of the 
face slightly discolored in patches, the white of the eyes yellowish, the mind is undecided, 
irressolute, gloomy, irritable, dissatisfied, uneasy, hard to please, illhumored, grave, seri- 
ous, solemn, demure, easily disheartened, wanting in energy, pensive, melancholic, readily 
discouraged, always more blithe and joyous on pleasant days, and greatly affected by the 
weather and the surroundings. In an organization where the liver is relatively stronger 
and more active than the stomach, the skin is of good color, the white of the eye presents 
a firm, clear appearance, cheeks plump, step elastic and fit m, lull temples and the skin of 
them clear and well filled with red blood ; the mind is contented, of good cheer, free find easy, 
youthful del onair, vivacious, jocose, sprightful, lively and prompt. All of the other 
forms are subdivided and the divisions are explained under their appropriate headings. 

1. Nearly devoid of vitality; a thin skeleton. 

2. The digestive and assimilative organs are very weak; hence liable to wear out prema- 
turely; are wanting in the social element; would appreciate a secluded country residence 
better th-an city life, or animal enjoyment; delicately made, easily annoyed; there is far 
too much exsicati n and drainage in this system. 

3. Possess an nustored, meagre, spare, frame, with an insufficient stock of life-power, the 
secernent and excretory tunctions are torpid; the mental efforts may be rapid but they 
lack rastainment and vigor — are uneasy and apt to worry over trifles. 

4. Lack flesh and blood, and suffer hell when digesting, which causes tenuity of figure; 
deficient in vital energy; care littlo for physical ease, yet with plenty of sleep and hus- 
bandiug the nutrient strength may accomplish much good work, and eventually gain in 
flesh and become more genial and placid. 

5. Having adequate nutritive juice and vegetative life for usual pursuits, are thereby 
qualified to endure much, although slightly made; dinner is not *hat such minds worship; 
likely to overdo. 

6. Happily balanced in the nourishing and supplying department; are neither too fleshy 
nor too thin; the vegetative and digestive forces are amply capable of furnishing a fair 
amount of nourishment; such systems require excellent care. 

7. Have vital juices required for ordinary exertion, fraught with a fair share of life force; 
capacitated to enjoy animal pleasures and comforts, yet excess would soon break sach a 
body down. 

8. The roral secretions suffice with judicious use to carry this frame through all neces- 
sary and useful undertakings; although not bulky and massive, yet the metal is of good 
quality; can work off flesh as rapidly as take it on; usually busy. 

9. The fullness, moisture, and plentitude displayed in this figure, are indicative of mag- 
netic sociality and companionship, if circumstances are favorable; are well nourished and 
enabled to relish well the material things of earth. 

10. Such systems produce an abuudance of rich, nourishing blood, giving promethean 
life and vitality; hardships, trials and the frowns of fortune are endured nobly; often fond 
of ease, yet position in life and surrounding conditions may not admit of much leisure. 

11. Burdened with too much soft flesh, lymph rheum, serum, water, and bid fair to be- 
come more corpulent and plethoric; fond of aquatics; often relish eating, drinking, and the 
pleasures of the senses; not so healthy and strong as the plump appearance denotes; slow 
to anger. 

12. All such persons drink quite freely of water or other liquids; extremely succulent, 
juicy, corpulent, and obese, with an unusual inclination to become more lymphatic, ventri- 
cose, fleshy, embonpoint, and constitutionally averse to motion and labor, unusually genial 
and contented; not easily excited, yet dreadful in wrath when angered; persons of this type 
are often heard to say, "If you don't wish to be run over, get out of my way;" and thus 
they feel immoderately; quite magnetic; look keenly to self-interests. The diseases to 
which this form is most liable, are: fatty degeneration of the heart, liver and kidneys; 
water in the chest — from which Charles James Fox died; he, and others mentioned below, 
had a marked predominance of the abdominal form; inflammation of the bowels, which 
caused the death of David Hume; tumors — Thomas Crawford had tumor in the eye; dropsy 
— of which died Queen Anne, John Bell, James Hogg and Bayard Taylor; Scrofula — which 
afflicted Samuel Johnson, as did dropsy; gout— from which died Milton, William Pitt, son 



4 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

of the Farl of Chatham, Robert Peel, W. Congreve, Thomas Gray, and the same disease 
afflie: |] and Bourgeon; morbid drowsiness and excess of sleep— as in Crassus, the 

rich i distinguished and rery fat Roman; cutaneous ancesthesia, or impaired sensation; apo- 
which died Henry L, Emperor of Germany, Don Alphonso VI., of Leon and 
w Henry, Joseph of Paris, Charles II., of England, George I.; Wm. Penn 
fits, which impaired his intellectual faculties, six years before he died; 
Ddolph; Catharine II., James Deacon Hume, Cabanis, Malpigi, Raniazzini, Audra; 
right, of Maiden, England, weighed 648 pounds, was 5 feet 9 and one-half inches 
mely abdominal, always subject to inflammation in the legs, and fevers— he died 
ofmi r al 30 years of age; he had a remarkable appetite and drank a gallon of beer 

each day; by oeonpatton a grocer; miliary fever, inflammations and carbuncles often afflict 
rm; Henry VIII. of England, had many of the latter, and he and William the Con- 
queror w< re highly abdominal — the latter died partly from enormous fat. 

A. Take oare to masticate slowly plenty of plain, easily digested food, and wash it down 
with c pious potations of water. After meals throw the bpdy into an easy chair, with the 
:. and induce sleep; or, lie down to rest and take it easy. All slim literary men 
i illy n quire to Let the system often fall into a state of repose. When a child's abdo- 
iii*ti Is r. lativily small and "weak, restrain and curtail his studies, and all exercise of a 
Dt oharaeter; but stimulate the eating and drinking tendencies. Avoid every thing that 
Interferes with the cultivation of good temper. Keep the mind serene and free from dis- 
turbing passions. Attending totheso hints, Nature will round out the slight figure and abol- 
Isfa the straight Unas and angles of the thin form, giving as much of the abdominal form as 
is necessary for the canalisation of the faculties. 

1 Keep tin 1 mouth closed, the eyes and ears wide open; sleep on a hard mattress, never 
six hours in the twenty-four; restrain the eating and drinking tendencies to the 
Utmost point, short of imitating the Frenchman's horse which just died on attaining to the 
• ol livii g on one blade of grass each day. Avoid milk, beer, sweet wine, fresh beef, 
r and butter, as well as all oleagenous and carbonaceous substances. Use water 
for drink. Work earnestly with limbs and mind; cultivate the society of lively, act- 
uprightly persons, who will, by the power of sympathy, assist in overcoming the torpor 
of your mind. Like Cobb, the famous pugilist, exercise as he did when he went to Scot- 
land to fight Molyneux; or as Captain Barclay, who steamed off 33 lbs. of his carcase in a 
walking match of 1,000 miles. A Leith merchant climbed every morning to the top of Ar- 
thur's Seat, a hill N22 feet high, about 3 miles from Leith, and thus succeeded in reducing 
his corpulent physique. Doctor Cheyne, of London, got rid of 140 lbs. of flesh, and lived 
t<> a good old age, by restraining his appetite and taking a good deal of exercise. Let 
these be encouraging examples. By such means one will not only reduce superabundant 
flesh, but will also improve the beauty of person, and if to these moderatives are added 
friction ol the body, it will greatly help the desired reduction, and at the same time pre- 
tl,« system from gout and apoplexy. The secretions will be duly proportioned, fatty 
redundancy removed or prevented, the skin rendered smooth and elastic, and the complexion 
will become soft, clear and wholesome. 

II-— Thoracic Form, 

Lmy Capacious, Cheekbones Prominent, Throat Full, rchile the Abdomen and 

Brain are comparatively Small; Pyriform, or inverted Pear-shaped Body. 

SUBDIVISIONS OF THE THORACIC FORM. 
Nature divided the Thoracic Form into ihe Heart and Lungs. As the lungs make the 

1,1 ' arterial or light red. and in that condition it is found in the arteries, it follows that 

and their power is represented by the arteries and the amount of light red blood 
item The signs Nature gives when the lungs are predominant over the 
lit red lips, light colored and healthy skin, with red cheeks when young; 
1 cheek bones; animated look, joyous countenance, sprightly step; 
!• r li .it. rminate, excitable, transitional, mobile, brisk, vivacious, bustling, astir, 
isinees-like. When the AeoH predominates in power and activity over the 
• veini will be prominent and full on the hands and elsewhere; sallow or pale 
ly step; old look; a studious, reflective cast of mind; slow 
messed ,,f greet energy when under way; are somewhat profound and 8U8- 
IW< is. The venous system is stronger thau the av 
trt is relatively more powerful than the lungs. 
1 '" ,M »»«' circulation bearing dose resemblance to the snail and sloth, henoe 

th< timidity and bick-a-duisical pansiveni 

Pti^e nature, constantly take cold, and are thus unprotective and de- 
l-stirring not electric, 
with fluttering and irregular poise; respiration hurried and imperfect; 
I by midden changes of temperature; difficulties look like mountains; pen- 
Slt< .n I plod ling 

rcnlation being poor it renders the skin i naetive ami unhealthy; are sub- 
t-n feel wearied, an 1 can find no better life-preserver than the will . 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 5 

5. The lungs and the vascular system are not very strong, liable to a cough, too cold for 
the Arctics; neither very tough nor voluptuous; dispirited when overworked. 

6. The arterial and breathing forces are moderate; are neither as warm as a chicken nor 
cold like a frog; the warlike tendency is not a controlling impulse in this nature. 

7. Have neither large nor powerful chest; are well equipoised between listlessness and 
intense ardor, yet quite active at times when aroused. 

8. Enjoy physical action very well, yet can govern the desire for excitement; with active 
passions and sturdy impulses, and rather easily elated by success. 

9. The element of air enters largely into this system; with care will not be subject to lung 
consumption; aspiring mentally, and bent on accomplishing high aims; hard to foil. 

10. This respiration is full, deep and invigorating; an elastic, springy, active frame, with 
tirm muscles and bones, which give great activity of body and mind; not easily overcome 
and will not submit to others or circumstances until compelled; joyous and youthful in 
body, and aspiriDg and impulsive in mind, with an indomitable eaergy that ever pushes one 
forward to greater tasks and nobler efforts. 

11. In one with such enormous strength of heart and lungs, all impure air and noxious 
gases are highly inimical to life, because- they are so largely taken into the blood that they 
poison it in a large degree; fond of active pleasures in open air; easily elated by success; 
generally good feeling, yet high tempered when aroused to anger; rather warm, glowing and 
eloquent, and at times profound and argumentative; more intense, zealous and ardent than 
discriminating or logical; a mind incited by many momentary and good motives, and will 
grow better with age. 

12. This may be appropriately termed the aeriform, from this life depending largely 
upon the atmosphere and .a congenial climate; such breathe much and have great strength 
of heart and lungs, surcharged with electricity; full of vigor and energy; are volatile and 
fluctuating, zealous, ardent, confident, magnanimous, generous, animated, elastic, playful, 
imaginative, fond of amusements; great elation of spirit at times, which is the prelude to 
days of darkness; have warm attachments and great love of physical action, field sports 
and the intense excitement of crowded cities and business life; overflowing with courage. 
The tendency of this form is to the following diseases: hypertrophy of the left ventricle of 
the heart and other diseases of that organ; Bright's disease of the kidneys, as in George 
Peabody, Charles Dickens and Napoleon III. ; pneumonia, pleurisy, cerebral and pulmon- 
ary congestion; inflammation of the lungs, and rupture of the heart, as in George II., and 
Maffat the Irish revivalist. 

A. Run, ride, row a boat, climb hills, mountains and church steeples. Dr. Baynard, of 
Bath (England) had weak lungs, and living on low ground, he became consumptive, if not in 
confirmed phthisis; but he cured himself and became at least in this respect strong and heal- 
thy by almost constant riding. Fly, then, from the sea-level and seek the mountain heights; 
wal kerect and forego serious thinking, and give yourself up to amusing thoughts, or the con- 
versation of agreeable friends; use both bathing and friction of the chest, and it will certainly 
expand as any effect will follow its cause. Read aloud an hour every day; sing, if possess- 
ing any ear for music, and breath deeply all the air possible. Use dumb-bells, play at 
shuttlecock if you can find an antagonist, and tight a shadow rather than remain passive. 

B. The very intensity of the fires within this form may destroy the life they were in- 
tended to preserve. If, therefore, this form is too energetic, burning up too much material 
through the size and powerful action of the lungs and heart, live much within doors, 
creeping into the cellar rather than up to the garret; sit still for some time daily, and pros- 
ecute intellectual studies. Eat heartily, chiefly vegetables, avoiding animal food and fer- 
mented liquors. Invite sleep and shun all occasions of excitement; but especially keep 
away from the activities of war, and whatever and every kind of strife. 

III.— Muscular and Fibrous Form. 

This type Broad raUier than tall, the Xeck short, the Forehead low, the Nose flat, the Ear short, 
the Eyes prominent, the Wrinkles on the Face deep and perpendicular. 

SUBDIVISIONS OF THE MUSCULAR FORM. 

A person having the involuntary muscles (which are those not subject to the will, such as 
those of the heart, lungs, respiration and stomach) more powerful than the voluntary (those 
muscles which move by the will) have relatively small hands and feet, wide head and jaws, 
short ears, large full, thick body, short, tapering limbs, quick of motion, not fond of man- 
ual labor, high temper, acute, keen, crafty, cutting, piquant, fond of music and dancing, 
averse to persevering study, prone to ardent love of the opposite sex; with bias for business 
and social enjoyments. 

In persons where the voluntary are relatively larger than the involuntary muscles, the 
individual has rather large frame, limbs, hands; spare body; flat chest; narrow, long, high 
head; long ears; possessed of considerable strength; has a tendency to gloomy forebodings; 
fond of traveling, if not obliged to walk; emotional, quiet in manners, unobtrusive, patient, 
cordial, warm-hearted, yet philosophical and profound. 

1. There is scarcely any muscle in this frame; harmless as a butterfly, useless as last year's 
rainbow, would not kill a flea or outrun a snail if possible to help it, but would yield to 
every whim of everyone rather than make the least exertion — laziness personified. 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

are very weak and feebly braced; the good Lord only knows for what this 
ighing and groaning, weak and spasmodic in all 

,bis frame to labor, possessing little strength, yet feel stronger 
|y dogs the mental nature. § 

i deplete d trom lack of proper exercise, are master of 
gome strength, tfa LitUe for great efforts; often feel relaxed, unstrung, enervated, 

on w< ary. . 

is required this thin frame cannot excel; at one period of 
,hanoe did not take sufficient exercise; may exhibit con- 
. yel are unfit fci heavy manual labor; not very powerful, though with due 

sufficient muscular power for every day undertakings; slender and narrow 
1 .1., D excited are very active; should guard well against taking heavy 

•h • f.iir amount of muscle; naturally tough enough for common exertion, 
unfit t-r the heavy drudgeries, and should abjure them; may profitably engage in 
,-, i u ht i.i.-ht.il employment. 

implish quite well, or strike a severe blow; the body and the shoul- 
ders are sufflcinr. physical Btamina; are more graceful than brawny. 

sereis an excellent share of vigor in these muscles, perhaps have been overtaxed with 

m B or dons loo mnoh work first and last, and from that reason the infirmities 

irlii-r; instinct with considerable activity and native strength. 

Oyolopean muscles, fraught with more strength than it is well to use; a 

Tigoro-. tion, full of Bturdiness and pith; are capable of much physical exertion; 

i with strength and clearness of mind; are intense and fearless, with an opinion on 

eTer y B politic and wise to always freely express all of those ideas. 

II. Wonderf a I muscular strength girds this adamantine frame, and invigorates the great 
powers of physical endurance; rarely feel tired; likely slow to anger, but when aroused or 
lion force wells up sufficient to overcome all opposition; think far more 
is ever altered. 
U. [he pro ligious force, spring and tension reposing in these muscles, fibres and sinews 
enables one to work and think almost perpetually without breaking down. A Hercules in 
- an 1 s ilf-will; a natural miguetizer; when opposed will go contrary to the de- 
. 1 opinions of others; are eager, fervent, intense, penetrating and capable of strong 
Dents; if educated, are a bold thinker. Inclined to remoUisseinent, especially red, 
- Inflammatory softening of the brain, of which Mendelssohn died; cramps; neu- 
i nt- iheumatum; muscular exhaustion; bilious colic, of which latter Zichary Taylor 
troks Henry Torrens, an Adjutant General of the British Army, received a sun- 
id intermittent, remittent and other fe vers; Alexander the Great died of a 
fever, u tremely muscular; Phillip III., the Hardy, died of a fever, also Leopold II., 

Oliver Oromwell; Alexander I., Emperor of ltussia, died from intermittent fever; 
Harj I died Of I fever; also Lord Thomas Fairfax, Lord Byron died from malarial fever; 
: y. which caUM i the death of that remarkably muscular and strong man, Giovanni 
linal Wolsey, Henry Havelock, David Livingston, Brigham Young. 
remedy Is exercise. Take it early in the morning, say from 6 uutil 7 in 
iriy in winter as it is light. Let it be walking, riding, running, jumping, 
iuli-1.. .,r, lifting, or playing at any active game. Sponge the body from 
with eold water the first thni}.' every morning, then rub the skin quite dry, and 
brush it thorns [hlj until it glows. Take plain food and avoid all kinds of pastry and con- 
; lee, puddings, preserves, pickles and sweetmeats. Let no day pass 
without time in the open air. but allow rest suffich nt. Cyrus understood the 

• Djfth when he mads it ■ law among the Persians that no one should 
■ 1' it, it becoming too thin under this regimen, exercise 1 n. 

• u in this degenerated age have more muscle than brain or body in 
■ oid "1 all the forms tins is perhaps the least likely to require restraint. But 
li vidua] maj have been s person strong to labor physically, and inuured to earn the 
if ol brawny arms; by good luck may have been left a fortune, 
BmataneeS may dean it desirable to Income Pofter, more refined and intel- 
■ ■' — o> hut t . reverse the regimen prescribed above uuder A. Exer- 
•id thinking, and seek recreation in those lighter pas- 
times Which d< •' and deuoaey rather than strength. 

IV. Osseous or Bony Form. 

. Wrists, and Knuckles Fromimnt, 
. OMong, 8qit <>■<■ Make, 

• M\ [8ION8 OF THE BONE POBM. 

ooncsmay ader two general heads, namely: the Short and the Long. 

>>ben the bones aro (A4 ,',.»•(, the hands are short sn 1 thick, shoulders massive, 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 7 

wide and square < a word of caution may be appropriately introduced here; when the per- 
son is thin aud the bone form appears predominant, and the neck is long, with very droop- 
ing shoulders, running down from each side of the neck similar to the roof of a house each 
side of the ridge, such persons have the muscular form predominating over the bony form 
and may be and generally are dishonest); large square chin; jaws heavy and broad; brow 
full immediately over the eyes; person of medium height or short, and the character that 
this condition and form of body gives is a tendency to speculate ia cattle, live stock, 
lands, real estate, and to engage in manufacturing, mechanical jobbing, contracting and 
other heavy industries where trading is joined with mechanism. Loruj, slim bones make the 
figure tall, relatively slim, with broad shoulders, long, straight fingers, brow projecting im- 
mediately above the eyes; the mind takes the direction of nature, philosophy and science 
combined; therefore they have talent for geology, philosophy, zoology, physiology, com- 
parative anatomy, natural history anthropology, physiognomy, mathematics, chemistry, 
botany, astronomy, and become good naturalists, reformer?, generally free thinkers; Prof. 
Richard Owen, Charles Darwin, Prof. Fawcett. 11. P., Dr. Wilder, Gen. Sherman, John 
Sherman, Prof. Morse, Lafayette Washington, Jefferson, Walter Scott, Lincoln, each being 
relatively very tall, and represent this last division of the bone form. 

1. An iusignitieant looking little mortal, as restless and unstable as a leaf driven by the 
wind, are given to trifling pursuits and " pernickety " ways. 

2. The bones being thin and dwarf-like, as they are here, render one more active than 
enduring; the burdens of life would rest heavily on such a tiny creature; many bright fan- 
cies lure this mind onward. 

3. This is a frail, delicate frame, with small hands and small feet; very little exertion 
wearies this person; softness and failure of strength mark this form as harmless and de- 
fenseless-are stirring, spry, smart, nimble, agile and light footed. 

\. Quite weak in bone power, if thin would be spindle-shanked; more of the earthy 
would enable this person to engage more profitably in the world's great enterprises; are a 
sylph-like, graceful figure, full of fine thoughts, images, and sparkling ideas, more impres- 
sible than impressive. 

5. Nature formed this structare more for a fine thoughtful occupation than to plod or 
toil as a hewer of wood or drawer of water; are active, bri^k, quick, and ever on the alert; 
more given to pleasant than to vigorous thoughts, with images more glowing than sublime. 

6. The bones of this organism are not very large; this frame exhibits more grace than 
power; may be assiduous aud diligent, but to drudge or drone away time does not befit this 
nature; are alive, vivacious, spirited and in earnest. 

7. The osseous frame in this body is fairly well developed, sufficient to sustain it in ordi- 
nary efforts; can accomplish much mental or physical labor; neither inert nor over assidu- 
ous; not apt to lag or loiter when there is on hand something useful to accomplish. 

8. Excellent bone structure; can bear up under great trials, and suffer patiently without 
sinking; keenly alive to the useful and practical which frees this mind from vague theories 
and lends stability to its projects. 

9. The bones are strong, of good texture, not liable to fracture, and are a permanent fund 
for the support of this character; can use the framework to advantage; charged with natu- 
ral solidity of mind, continuance, fortitude, mettle, toughness, and when well can bear great 
labor or trouble without siuking, and if rightly brought up will prove useful in society. 

10. Have considerable ability to grapple with difficulties, more solid than showy, may not 
•fidget and bustle about so nimbly as persons with lighter bones, yet when entering the 
heavy industrial departments, or any of the useful avenues of life, will be certain to go 
steadily, perhaps slowly to the consummation of the project; have a strong constitution and 
a frame in which the bones are not easily broken; unalterable, efficient, steadfast, and can- 
not be readily influenced by other minds. 

11. Capable of enduring camel-like; very little rest refreshes this long frame; slow to 
start and never particularly agile; ever undrooping, unintermitting and indefatigable when 
once fully interested; quite determined and inflexible in general intentions; plain, practical 
and direct, with a clear, far seeing mind. 

12. Here are extremely large, long, rocky, infrangible bones, which give a tall, lank, dry, 
husky, sapless appearance; this supernal and stalwart frame accompanies large hands and 
large feet, and renders one slow to think and act, yet causes this person to be thorough, 
grave, philosophical, meditative and metaphysical; not so well favored, graceful, spruce, or 
handsome as some, yet none are more fixed, indefeasible or undeviating; can endure pain 
with calmness; liable to be obstinate under great excitement. The bones when pre- 
dominant lay one open to chronic rheumatism ; morbid state of the spleen, liver, stomach 
and bowels; colds of which Francis Bacon and Washington died; vitiated secretions; im- 
paired digestion, flatulence, constipation, piles, periostitis, ostitis, enlargement of joints, 
granular degeneration; gravel, which afflicted Walter Scott very much; stone, one of which 
was found after death in Sir Thomas Adams, which weighed twenty-five ounces; disorders 
of the bladder, one of which caused the death of Newton, whose bone form was regnant. 

A. Exercise much, but not to excess, in slow, heavy labor, performed in sunlight. That 
this develops the bones may be witnessed in the hands and bones of every laborer accus- 
tomed from youth to heavy outdoor employment. Men born and reared in London, Glas- 



g HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

cow Edinburgh, Liverpool, Manchester, and other large cities, especially manufacturing 
towns, are usually short, small-boned and very often bandy or calliper-legged. These de- 
from the sun being so much obscured by the smoke and fog that the bone growth 
I . For Bimilar reasons there are more cripples and persons of stunted and crooked 
growth in London, 1 1 I Minburgh, Liverpool, Manchester and Copenhagen than else- 

where in Britain or Europe. These cities, from their insular position, mostly near the sea, 
huv.- many olondj and rainy day*; besides being so densely built and smoky as materially to 
inUrv. p| tin- rays of the sun. Hence the bones ot the inhabitants bom and grown in those 
cities in generally small and weak, the spines and legs apt to growincurvated and crooked. 
All nocturnal annuals have relatively small bones, as the fox, coon, opossum, etc., that 
it .hit tly after sunset. So are such specimens as Ihe burrowing animals— the 
mM.it, marmot, mink, musk-rat, beaver, common rat, mole—all of which are more or less 
hid from sunlight ■ great part of their time. If too rich or too lazy for manual labor, or 
In a sedentary pursuit, ride on horseback through the open country, leaving all 
Eadfl at home, and receiving the full blessing of the sunlight. And the advice is— use 
By vagi table and farinaceous food; this contains lime and the phosphates necessary to 
the formation of bone, whereas animal food contains little or no bone material. The 
largest animals are vegetarian; while the carnivorous, as the lion, tiger, lynx, etc., secure 
bone material by crushing and devouring the bones as well as the flesh of their prey. Those 
races of the human family that subsist almost wholly on fish and meat, as the Esquimaux 
and Lapps, are short and small-boned in comparison with the Russians, Swedes and Nor- 
Drink calcareous water. Avoid everything that tends to chill the body or im- 
rirenlation, such as damp, cold, or dark rooms, thin cotton or linen clothing, light 
shoes and tight dresses, and maintain a free circulation of the blood with fair natural 
warmth. 

B, If the bones are becoming large and the the mind sluggish, as is evinced by dullness 
of apprehension and want of sensitiveness, forego both walking and horse-riding, perform 
■romotion in railway cars; sit and study much in shady places. Whenever exercising 
let it be in some light, active work or games, with lively, small-boned, talkative companions; 
attend theatres, lectures, and exhibitions where brilliant scenes are witnessed and excite- 
ment abounds. Visit museums and art galleries; devote the leisure hours to reading, and 
never walk out, unless it be after sunset. Thus may one quicken the sensational part of 
the system and check an excess of bone growth. 

V.— Brain and Nerve Form. 

Reialivtly Large Head, Spare Pyriform Face, Slender Neck and Body, Quick, Nervous 
Movement, Rapidity of Speech, Hungry Look. 

SUBDIVISION OF THE BRAIN AND NERVE FORM. 
This form is divided by nature into motion and sensation. In those having the nerves of 
StoHon n-liitiv. ly stronger and more active than those of sensation, the nose will be wide at 
the end; thick skin; lower face and back head wide when compared with the forehead; 
: v looking eyes; heavy, strong, and slow in motion; gait swinging from side to side; 
ears and lips thick; usually low, wide build; these persons are dull in learning; gifted with 
in- re natural common sense than polish or acquired habits; not fanciful; slow, but gener- 
ally correct jadgsent of physical things; slow to anger, yet terrible aad severe in rage; 
little for spiritual subjects, and think more of this than the next life; prosy and plod- 
ding, yet stiona when slotted. 

UMSation where the serves o/ sensation predominate over those of motion, as 
they do whan the skin is thin, forehead relatively broad, nose prominent and thin at the 
syss, thin Anger nails, the person has an over sensitive nervous system, 
and is very seats In the special sense of feeling, and fond of that which appeals to the 
Mil start Into n. w enterprises and soon weary of them; imaginative, tasty and can 
learn mu<h; very spiritual; easily aroused; irritable; petulant, as was the case with Joseph 
Jo«t r; possess more action than strength of both reason and fancy; emotional 

and highly mis. • ptible to all surrounding intlueiices. 

1 with littlfl mors sensation and warmth than a pumpkin. 

2. Whether tins body is Instinct with the two senses of an oyster or four, like the mole, 
may be a pwssj ttoa , but all the sensations it has are obtuse, and this person cannot feel in- 
tern*, ly with t<-uch or any of the special senses; unfeeling, unaffected, dull, in- 
sensible, and .i colli, sluggish nature; adapted only to a warm climate 

' .via, the greatest aberration ol harmony in sounds, unpleas- 
ant obJ4 ots to lh( touch, vulgar); mingled colors, bitter flavors to the taste, affect this sense- 
less i ;. little; ill lull objects; apathetic and callous. 

4. [noapabM Ol th< ; I cut, pinch or blow hurts this person less than 

would bs felt by most Individuals; tl • an daaplj buried, brain small, strong body, 

live. 

sling nor stolidity; nervous ardor will not likely 
• on a foolish bobby; Dot capable of making ■ufflcient heat for the 
tOO small to pi.p.ily muni-h the spirit. 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 9 

6. This nervous system will bear a tolerable amount of pain or hard labor before it will 
yield or breakdown; not likely to be troubled with great nervous excitement; are slightly 
susceptible to surroundings, yet not a very sensitive plant. 

7. Have a fair degree of feeling, taction, tactility, palpation and keen tonch; here the 
sentient system is quite under the control of the will; are generally placid and complacent, 
if healthy, except when deeply wronged; will sometimes become affected and wrought up 
until tremblingly alive to every cause of provocation, yet a few pleasant words cause this 
person again to take heart and become composed and serene. 

8. The power to enjoy or suffer is very considerable with this person; these feelings are 
easily excited by external objects, by the varied states of the body, or by new thoughts or 
strange fancies; have plenty of nerve, hence are not likely to become buried alive in the 
obscurity of contempt and derision. 

9. Possess a well developed nervous system; alive to all manner of physical sensibility; 
great sensitiveness, perceptivity and acuteness of the external senses render this system 
sharply responsive to all surroundings; easily impressed with the sorrows and joys of com- 
panions, yet may not manifest the feelings freely to others. 

10. Enabled to create nervo-vital, or brain fluid sufficient for the bodily and spiritual de- 
mands; gifted with a lively sense of feeling; highly susceptible to sensations; readily 
affected by anything which appeals to the special senses; few know how much earnestness 
such people experience and in what manner they are impressed — can endure cold if neces- 
sity demands. 

11. This brain is relatively large and sustains the body and spirit well by producing suf- 
ficient brain fluid to give life to the body and sustainment for the spirit; the sensor nerves 
are very large and active, yet the motor nerves are weak, any manner of dissipation would 
soon ruin this fine, high-strung nervous structure; are very sensitive to pressure; at times 
readily become agitated, mobile, restless, acute, racy, double-edged, sarcastic, ticklish, full 
of warm emotions; can attend well to details; likely to have a hot head and cold extremi- 
ties, because mat-nutrition has caused inaction or closing of the efferent nerve tubes which 
prevents the brain fluid from being carried to the extremities, there to give life and warmth. 

12. The very best material enters into this brain and this nerve structure, accordingly 
here is exceedingly rapid and intense activity of the nerve force, which makes this person 
extremely sensitive; when healthy, this nerve power can ably produce and maintain the heat 
of the body; are well adapted to resist the depressing action of cold; this is an arid, juice- 
less, slender frame, yet highly susceptible to enjoyment or suffering; ardent in desires; are 
gay, sparkling, delicate, spiritual, readily impressed or injured in any way; not hardy; fra- 
gile, easily moved to pity, love, hate, fear, imagination; are a fine-grained, restless dispo- 
sition, excitable, caustic, pungent; talk and act quickly, tenacious of opinions; others take 
thy magnetism, thereby lessening attraction and health. This form is most guardless 
against dyspepsia, wh'ch killed Philip IV., of Spain, and Charles VI., of Austria; pulmo- 
nary consumption, as in Edward Irving; Samuel Phillips, an editor of the London "Times," 
Napoleon II., Weber, the musical composer, and Charles B. Brown; asthma, as was the case 
with Alexander Pope and John Locke; intense application, of which Robert Pollok, author 
of " Pollok's Course of Time," died also, Henry White; melancholy, as was the case with 
Adrastus, Lambrun, Cowper, Racine, Condorcet, Poe; muscular tremors and debility; tetanic 
spasm; paralysis, which afflicted Pausanius, Lamotte, General Putnam, Henry Hunt, Heine, 
John Gait; insonuda or sleeplessness, as with Paganini and Boerhave; cerebritis, meningitis,, 
cerebral abscess; tumors; chronic, white or non-inflammatory softening of the brain, simi- 
lar to that of Oscar I.; cerebral headache; vertigo or dizziness; insanity, as in Lucretius, 
Ceesar, Borgia, Tasso, Nathaniel Lee, Edmund Burke, Alexander Cruden, Lambrun, Doni- 
zetti, Southey, John Leland, William Cowper; idiocy, as was the case in the celebrated Dean 
Swift, Marlborough, and Pugin the younger. 

A. The functions of the brain and nervous system are liable to suffer on the one hand 
from luxury, especially in eating and drinking. The great authors of past centuries, the 
thinkers whose works have immortalised them, were saved from being gormandisers by the 
poverty which was generally their lot. From overwork, on the other hand, the brain may 
suffer; the fibres, like over-screwed strings of a musical instrument, give way, as in the 
case of the celebrated geologist, Hugh Miller. Therefore, if deficient in brain and nerve 
power, and wanting in sensitiveness and susceptibility to the higher class of emotions and 
impressions, eat sparingly of plain food, especially avoiding heavy suppers. Secure a 
proper amount of sleep, and force the mind to study something for several hours daily, at- 
tend sensational plays, fairs, brilliant assemblages, musical entertainments, polite parties, 
gorgeous and exciting scenes, fashionable weddings and first-class funerals, visit flower- 
gardens, museums, galleries of art, and fully enter into all the bustle and gaiety of fashion- 
able life. Select whatever the mind is likely to become most interested in, and persevere in 
applying the mind to it until application becomes no longer difficult. The fruits and cereals, 
especially oats in the form of meal made into porridge or cakes, are better for sustaining 
nerve power than animal food. 

B. If, on the other hand, the mind is becoming too susceptible, too sensitive, irritable, 
poignant, satirical, and drastic, or have injured the nervous system by overwork or dissipa- 
tion, then devote the entire organism to physical labor or recreation and cut off some houss 



10 



TH AND CHARACTER 



„„„„,:„.. M much us possible in the open air, and eat suffi- 

1,1,. If there isauy subject to which the thoughts 

dweU until the mISd and body become restless, 

rnUd to a ^ to son. occupation or pastime that will divert 

ri/tiou from every species ot excitement, bleep, 

ibits. 




Disease. Health. 

HEALTH. 

1. Corruption is at work in every part of this physical system. 

J.I is made sad havoc with this constitution — are healthless. 

3. Ihe foundations of this life are slowly giving way; wanting health. 

togh able to move about, the vital powers are weak; the thread that holds soul 
\nd bodt together is so fretted that it is ready to break with the slightest tension. 

M functions of this physical life are not in a state to be relied on; and like a dirty 
watch the v i tul system is in danger of coming to a dead stop. 

bough this physical system has been overtaxed, still with care its vigor may be 

7. A medium place between a strong and a weak constitution this person holds; excellent 
care, however, may enable this frame to last to a fair age and enjoy a tolerable degree of 

. i.ird this system carefully againsttho approach of disease; having no health to waste 
ii gratifications. 
), II' r- is u fair share of health and strength; not such, however, as will bear to be 
trifled with. <ither by overwork or excessive animal indulgences. 

10. i of mon than average health and soundness of constitution and salutary 

■ intellect . 

1 1. Her« is | sound organisation, betraying no appearance of decay or disease; enjoying 
healthiness In each bodily power and efficiency of mind. 

\rc m tin- condition of the most perfect health. 

\ Pun ail is the first vital necessity for this system ; hence thoroughly ventilate both the 

i .,' and the deeping apartments. Be out of doors as much as possible, and never occupy 

a mi \void malarious localities, but especially do not reside near 8 

bur) laughter-house, an oil-refinery, or any other factories that emit foul 

the respiration, and ■pongs the whole body frequently with cold 

water, if posa umnal heat enough to endure it; but if cold and weak, use tepid 

wate; the skin to sssume ■ healthy color as well as remove stiffness and 

the same end. if the skiii seems out ol' order avoid animal fat of all 

• ik fimts and vegetables 

m hour daily, it possible, and frequently take pedestrian trips into 

lambcr np the lulls and mountains; dunce, run 'and roll about with a dog; 

I shun the di bauohery of sloth and inaotion. Hemember the phy- 

i M the moral, and must be kept inviolate, in order to make 

the bl nd impart tone ami utality into the solids of the organization. 

Regulate lbs drsss with ri lerenoe to health and comfort rather than appearance. Do not 

■» piripnssti ■*■**■ : I Mhionabi ooatumes. EUmembet that thin shoes help on* 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 11 

on most rapidly to an early tomb Many a man has taken cold by changing his boots for 
slippers on entering his home, and the cold has become a fever and ended his days. Under- 
clothing whether woollen, cotton, linen or silk, should be white, because it does not radi- 
ate the heat like colors, nor does it contain poisonous matters, a3 some colors do, to the great 
injury of the constitutions that are susceptible in this respect. 

Sleep, take as much of this real balm as possible, and if wide awake keep the mouth 
closed, especially when sleeping, both to prevent nightmare, and because the mouth, more 
rapidly thun the nose, inhales poisonous vapors and exhalations. If liable to somnambulism, 
eat something light before retiring, and as far as possible rub the body all over with the 
hand, or a flesh brush. Adopt the habit of Dr. John Hunter, the celebrated Scotch surgeon, 
•whose practice was to indulge in half an hour's sleep daily after dinner. Dr. Willard Par- 
ker, a talented surgeon of New York, allows nothing to prevent his sleeping one hour after din- 
ner. Reader! do thou the same. If the stomach is weak sleep in a reclining posture in a 
soft, large arm chair. Those who have strong stomachs experience no inconvenience from 
a recumbent posture. Dr. Abernethy, the famous physician to the Prince of Wales, always 
threw hiujpelf on the hearthrug for a snooze after dinner, and refused even to his Royal 
Highness to elevate himself until he completed his siesta. But remember to allow no new 
plea-ing thoughts to fascinate the mind before l>ed hour. 

Overwork and constant thought must, if possible, be avoided, the cowardly rascal disease 
seizing first aud chiefly the weak parts of the body, to preclude which one should endeavor 
to keep every organ, but specially the blood itself, in a strong and vitalized condition. If 
the memory begins to fail, the strength to decline, the mind to wander, change the place of 
residence and mode of living; take a lesson from migratory birds; seek a cooler climate in 
summer and a warmer in Winter; eat and drink what agrees best with the stomach, and 
thou wilt find thy symptons more tending towards soundness and health. 

Cultivate kind and virtuous dispositions. Bear in mind that the possession of fear and 
anger weakens the heart, deranges the nervous system, impedes perspiration, hinders the 
proper action of the bowels, and prevents healthful secretions and excretions throughout 
the entire frame. With an adamantine will determine to gain a perfect command over 
the angry passions; resolve to conquer every fear, and allow no weakening gloom or ex- 
treme anxiety to burrow within. As strenuous exertion is required to break an ugly colt, 
so does it demand unyielding resolution to manage a fractious spirit. Sadness banish, but 
hope and joy cultivate; for these exert a pre-eminent power in preserving health and lon- 
gevity as well as on worldly prosperity and advancement. The cause of life-force is, how- 
ever, cheerfulness, and also its consequence, and will be promoted by all the means al- 
ready mentioned. To these may be added, although already implied: keep much in the 
sunlight; avoid dark, dank and ill-ventilated places, eschewing all useless demands on the 
vital forces, and cherishing the hope of a happy immortality. So may health shed its en- 
nobling influence over many years of useful and health-inspiring life. 

R. As no one sutlers from an over-abundance of health, except those who abuse it for 
immoral purposes, it is unnecessary to give directions for its inhibition. The abuse of such 
a blessing is a transgression against all law, human and divine. 



For signs and principles of the faculties see "A New Physiognomical Chart," also "Na- 
ture's Revelations of Character or Physiognomy, illustrated," by J. Simms, M. D. 

Philovita.-Love of Life. 

1. Care naught for life and often premeditate suicide; 
look upon death aa a relief from the toils and cares of 
life; would like to be obliterated if it could be done with- 
out pain; the anxieties of life to thee are a great burden. 

2. Have a feeble hold upon life, and would give up 
readily under disease or injury ; care little for life and have ~££-Q-. 




no honor about being blotted out, for it is a p 1 "-""-* ^^^ ■ ■■■ w*a*ej ne> 

thought to this mind. *^nr.=— -^ — Jj^-C^* 

3. Enjoy life, yet have no anxiety about living; if Turtle— Great Tenacity of life, 

diseased or low in sickness, would not care which way the scale of life turns; cannot with- 
stand much ill health; occasionally the thoughts of death steal over the mind and cause a 
cold chill and a shudder, which are only momentary. 

4 Rather stolid and indifferent about life or death; gifted with some, though no great 
tenacity of life; would like to live for friends and in order to improve, aside from which to 
thee it is of small moment when the soul departs from the body. 

5. Under great trials and perplexities life becomes a burden and the world a sea of trouble 
and clouds, void of a ray of attraction or pleasure; strong temptations to suicide arise, but a 
sense of religious duty will likely prevent its accomplishment. 

6. Desire to continue in life and be exempt from death; to eDJoy life and be in a state of 
happiness, yet have no fear of dying; this mind is a vivid, burning, active, alive one, con- 
taining fire, and has fair ability to resist disease and will only give up to extra pressure. 



12 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

7. Have a firm grip of life as if in living earnest, and beat back the waves of disease with 
1 vigorous will and yield only when compelled; value life considerably on account of the 
enjoyment! and for what aid "can be afforded friends; live more for friends than for self. 

ling to th«- vitol spark or flame with strength and cohesion, resisting death with con- 

Mideral : .lity: have un elastic, resilent, tensile nature not easily yielding to what- 

^oul from body; dislike the thoughts of annihilation, yet are very full 

of suffering In one way and another, so that occasionally for a few moments, not to be, 

iffrooshlo to the feelings, but soon a little rest and refreshment causes thee 

to grasp as freely as ever for the breath of life 

9. One to value life and its privileges quite fully, yet in unhappy, tired and tried mo- 
ments fed to wish dentil, yet as it approaches will shrink from it considerably horrified; if 
l Injured would rally, revive and survive if there was a shadow of chance for recov- 
ery . will never yield until body and soul are tornassunder; well stocked with positive vita, 
ive all the essential will and grasp on life to keep above ground a long time. 
U< Possessing the vilnlis and the desire to exist and continue to live, and the other nec- 
essary belongings that contribute to life, it follows that such persons cling to and battle for 
life h'ke a bear, pnma, lion, tiger, wolf, cat, or snake; will not yield while a drop of blood 
remains; have great toughness of life-power; cling to life with a steel will; capable of 
enduring what would kill others; will come to and continue breathing while a shadow of 
life remains. 

11. Are fully determined to live as long as others can be seen, and will cling to this 
earth rather than trust to the chances in another; not pleased with the thought of dying; 
would hardly be ready to depart this life, much less to be no more; the death rattle is the most 
horrible noise to thine ears, and the word dead is the most solemn and sad of thy vocabu- 
lary ; will cling to life even if it be filled with pains and trials; attach unbounded import- 
ance to the privilege of existing, 

12. Enormous tenacity of life, remarkably afraid of death, shocked at the idea of anni- 
hilation, exert a wondeiful amount of will against disease and the approach of death; ever 
unwilling 'to die; would rather breathe in the greatest pain than pass through the agonies 
of death, and will never yield until life is wrenched away and the soul obliged to leave 
the body. 

A. To cultivate the love of life one should first learn to be of service to themselves and 
others, and have some noble aim for which to live; for he who lives for self and sensual 
IN will soon cloy upon the latter and weary of the first, and then to him there is 
nothing more attractive in this world; but he who each day finds some one he may aid in 
thought, word, or deed, and learns some valuable idea, opens day by day new attractions 
for life and new encouragements to bear manfully the sorrows, labors and pains of this 
world; but still higher and nobler becomes the man who learns that this world is the great 
nursery wherein minds are trained, nurtured, strengthened, and wisely or illy prepared 
for the spiritual eternity; and hence lives each day that he may add intelligence, goodness, 
Bipeiie— l and wisdom to unfolding spiritual power and the everlasting soul; which is a 
reward that shall last and be imparted to others and bless self throughout all eternity; 
regard s. -lf-protection as a duty that every individual owes to society, friends, the promotion 
of Intelligence, progress of the world and of his own spiritual growth and culture, that 
should render life ■ pleasure and increase one's desire to fulfill life's high duties in a man- 
ner honorable to our friends and all fellow-kind, and the truest improvement and most 
aoble st rvice that can be bestowed on self and others by leading a life of virtue, goodness, 
industry, and spiritual improvement. 

!'• Bear In mind that Ufa for its own sake becomes a wretched burthen, and live more 

fof the 04 \t life and leas for this iphere; and when once fully convinced beyond a doubt of 

ility that so-( all d death xs only a happy change to a brighter, better world than 

ta thou wilt lose all that fear of that misnomer, "death," and the inordinate 

■ life will naturally abate, until the spirit will long to depart, when sent for, without 

the *. i regret. 

An imalimitationa lity. Animal Imitation. 

1. Are an extreme oddity; largely resemble Peter, the Hermit of 
France, who Instigated the first crusade; anomaly, none such. 

Ither can mimic nor enter into the spirit or experience the feel- 
i attempt to represent; disinclined to portray existing 
iranoes; illyadapteafor the drsmatio profession; are a singular per- 
aesi of manner marks you as quaint and eccentric, fantas- 
ithic and unclasaioaL 
I • ry Little o opacity to work after a model; deficient in the mimetic 
pie or model; dislike to conform to others; have the 
fbeinA original; are yourself onaliooossions; peculiar in ways; never ap- 
ing oil • t fsaoX n. 

itly inclined to baoonformatory; to change, alter and de- 

,r. ; find little worthy of imitation; feeble, descriptive and anecdotic 
kla the feelings, emotions and thoughts which occupy the 




HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 13 

5. Cannot readily impersonate the cluracter of another; more original than imitative; 
not easy and soul-like in mimicry; bear an unmistakable individuality; ever inaugurating 
tentative projects: incapacitated for the fine arts. 

6. To follow or tread in the footsteps of another is distasteful, yet when necessary, can 
strike in with, repeat or copy what is good; so evenly balanced in this respect that to copy 
minutely is as impossible as to be a nondescript; likely to give birth to many genuine ideas. 

7. Take pleasure in witnessing pantomime, or caricature, yet are not an adept in either; 
to repeat verbatim is not your forte, so much as to alter the text, and likely to make it more 
interesting and instructive; may attempt to play the mocking-bird occasionally, and meet 
with a moderate degree of success; enjoy parody, travesty and burlesque. 

8. Can imitate the useful in a fair degree, yet will never become distinguished as an 
actor; not an able mimic, and unless aided by great practice, would signally fail in attempt- 
ing to personate the voice, walk, gestures and Foetal expression of another; may adapt thy- 
self to some special kind of work and fill a valuable place in the world. 

9. May not be competent to equal Chinese and Japanese sagacity in forming after a 
model; exhibit considerable skill in working after a pattern or following example; learn well 
whenever interested, and make the opinions and practices of other minds natural to your- 
self; in a telling way can take off eccentric and ridiculous mannerisms. 

10. With practice would become a most excellent mimic; able to make the habits and 
views of others natural to yourself; apt to gesticulate when speaking; have considerable 
taste for art; if tr lined would att du excellence in transcription, reproduction, illustration, 
design and representation 

11. When walking will often unconsciously assume the motions and gestures of those 
passing in view; prefer to do as others appear; describe and act well; take on the manners 
and customs of associates; fashionably inclined. 

12. Learn quickly to imitate beast, bird, the ways, manners and gestures of others; apt 
to lose identity; with practice would become a good theatrical performer; expressive face; 
given to mimicry, repetition, ridicule, buffoonery; parrot-like. 

A. Strive and thoroughly persevere in endavorins> to imitate every useful, good and 
stylish person; attend theatrical representations and fashionable resorts; dress neatly, yet 
as nearly as possible like the prevailing custom; brush your hair, teeth and clothes,; black 
your shoes; arrange every article in your wardrobe to please the eye; move in good and styl- 
ish society; take lessons in drawing, painting, dancing and deportment, and endeavor to be 
genteel. 

B. Be thyself on all occasions; wear the clothes until they are wofn out, regardless of 
fashion; strive to vary, modify, alter, and make something unmatched; act strangely, pe- 
culiarly and unusually; establish an identity of thine own; endeavor to become a reality in- 
stead of an imitation. 

Physioelpidicity. Physical Hope. 

1. Have no ground to expeot good or success; hopeless, melancholy and desperate. 

2. The prospects of future good, pleasure or success are very dark and doubtful; with- 
out hope; inclined to relinquish all efforts to win future advantages and pleasures; ever 
conceiving coming evil and sorrows; little buoyancy. 

3. Gloomy thoughts too often sully this mind, and render the circulation of blood slug-, 
glish, the pulse slow and weak, oppressive contraction or drawing of the heart, with a 
manifest chillness of the blood, which is communicated to the entire body, which shadows 
the spirits, dulls the wit, obscures the judgment, enfeebles the memory, beclouds the clear- 
ness of the soul, and causes the lamp of life to burn dimly. 

4. This mind's star of promise has occasional clouds which intercept its light and cast a 
gloom over the whole being. Now and then bright prospects, for a brief time, dispel the 
mists of dejection and cheer stirs to full activity each bodily and every mental power; easily 
dispirited and cast down. 

5. Are usually hopeful and expectant of success, but sickness or misfortune produces 
heaviness of heart and depression of feelings; are rarely either extremely hopeful or greatly 
melancholy; are usually cheerful, blithe and happy, yet not more so than is reasonable or 
allowable under the circumstances. 

6. Given to look out for or expect something batter coming; are sanguine in waiting for 
some benefit, yet are rarely ever elated; too well balanced to sink to the armpit in the 
slough of despond, or to trust to a balloon, with confidence, in reaching the moon; seldom 
entertain warm and brilliant anticipations; hence are rarely stranded on the shore of dis- 
appointment. 

7. Either in hopes and enthusiastic or hopeless and forlorn, according to the state of 
health or surrounding circumstances; are not entirely deficient in hope yet of ten experience 
gloomy and despondent feelings when exhausted by overwork, and then are miserable, 
though not despairing, yet occasionally quite melancholy and sad. 

8. Ever looking forward to brighter days for more happiness; full of sanguine expect- 
ations, so that losses will not cause many tears to flow, for such a buoyant spirit will rise 
again with hope, confidence, trust, vigor and earnestness; a joyous, light soul, always look- 
ing on the bright side of life and its concomitants. 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

!.d inclined to look forward to something good about to happen; one to 

benos are full of business, and can hardly comprehend how a person 

in idleness; are beckoned onward by glowing promises of future success 

,ul is often lifted up to greater activity and more powerful strug- 

urrence to come; the blood and heat are universally diffused 

whole body by hope, which stands ready to encounter the difficulties that op- 

. r in life's pathway. 

inally cheerful because the sheet anchor of hope gives a gentle and sweet 
i the soul towards some bright object to come; have sufficient hope 
. 'it leas like en eagle, or if thou wouldst not fly so high and fall so low; 
rrows and disappointments through the quality of anticipating fu- 
,,r excell( to cherish a strong desire of good with expectation or 

with l it; « v. r anticipating some prospective advantages; when once 

I will hope on, and like C. Marios, when Sylla proscribed him during his 
onsnlship ol lb me, and a large sum was offered for his head, and he wandered in 
intries, yet he cherished expectations of becoming Consulate of 
.■nth time, And by a Btrange revulsion in public affairs, he was recalled 
; Consul for the seventh time; a sensible hope that never falters, aud gener- 
ally accomplish* s what 18 undertaken. 

in all extremities by artistic hope, which pictures many glowing scenes 
extremely fond of exciting life and all manner of healthy excitement. 
This mind would rather glory in opposition, and has had, or will experience, some lottery 
tbling temptations; not disposed to repine over past misfortunes, but are looking 
ird and living for and hoping for better times in future. 
12. Overflowing with glowing anticipations and brilliant expectations of future happi- 
Iranght with illimitable hopes, ever joyous, buoyant, debonair, cheerful, 
light-hearted, sanguine and enthusiastic; in this respect largely resembling Chilo, one of 
• ii wise men of Greece, who died through excess of joy produced by the realization 
ause his son had gained a great victory at Olympia. 
A First of all, barn that hope is not a facility dependant on organic structure, but is 
.it of the amount of life-force and healthiness of organization; then strive to live so 
dly as to keep constantly on hand a surplus of vitality: be certain to take great care 
to keep the liver active, as well as all the bodily secretions and excretions, for with the 
stoppage ot' either comes sluggishness of body and oppression of the spirits; active exer- 
1 vegetarian diet will often remove constipation, and with it carry away despondency. 
the son of Amythaon, cured the daughters of Proetus, king of Argos, of melan- 
oholly by purging them with hellebore. Persuis tells Nero to take the most powerful physic 
Ins uiuh rstanding, which it is a pity he did not. Rest sufficient, and secure a reg- 
ular and thorough action of the bowels, and one may defy every one of the dismals and the 
s. 1. ( t associate s from amongst the most cheerily, jubilant, canty, joyous and cheer- 
ful people that can be found; go picnicing with young, unmarried and happy persons, and 
enter, as to as practicable, into their ways; throw off all care that tends to oveiburden the 
mind with extreme anxiety; lead an active life in sun-light, and, above all, secure a large 
■f open air to breathe; and, lastly, counsel with the most cheerful and happy per- 
son-, known and follow their advice implicitly until the expectation of thiugs to come is 
boned, and the whole tone of the mind partakes of more gaiety, high spirits and gen- 
eral eneerfnlneat; and continue this course of life until there is a certain inflation, both 
^ it bin and without the whole body, and hope by this means is strong enough to produce 
: 1 courage ratteient to conquer all before, and gather expected happiness from 
"in of futurity. 
B It hope is leading into lotteries, gambling and wild speculations, it should be re- 
pre,,,l, win. h cm be done by regulating it with the judgment and reason. Before gambling 
or going into any speeulatiion, counsel with some very successful friend, and follow defin- 
nelv hi ever sd< nd money until thou hast honorably earned it, and counsel more 

moor that hope ill grounded does often trick and bubble the owner 
bj Leading bin Inaenaibly along to be crushed by fortune's cheating lottery. 

Appetitiveness. Desire of Food. 

1. Institute of appetite, and consume as little 
as it Is possible and sustain life; a feeble plant: 
likely to die before reaching dotage. 

\re a damiy, nibbling, fussy, mincing body 
at table; an exceedingly small eater, with thin, 
poor and watery blood; a fault finder; particular 

Is what goes into, but not what comes 
out of the mouth. 

Ie desire for sustenance; t 
nioie of a task than a pleasure; this body is poorh 

sustained; thin, hungry, lankey looking, amiable 
to put forth only feeble efforts. 

i \ moderate feeder and takes little pleasure 

at meals; are usually thinking of something for- 




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15 




The Fish.— The drinking mouth. 



eign to what is on the table when taking refreshments; can hardly tell, two hours after din- 
ner, what was eaten, and care naught about the next meal; are more particular regarding 
the quality than the quantity of food. 

5. It is a cause of wonderment when seeing an epicure devour the jolly dumplings and 
rich viands placed before him; very likely, may imagine his stomach to resemble an india- 
rubber bag, always full, yet finds room for more; easily satisfied with the food set on the 
table; may relish plain, cleanly food, in fair quantities. 

6. Gifted with a sustaining relish for food; free from 
daintiness or epicurean tendencies; this appetite is oc- 
casionally somewhat freakish; have no desire to spend 
money superflously upon the commissariat. 

7. Enjoy table luxuries in a tolerable degree; not 
likely to become an extremist in deglutition; able easily 
to repress the feeling of hunger: happily balanced in 
this faculty. 

8. Possess sufficient appetite to fan the vital spark or flame into vigorous action; have 
not a voracious craving lor food; simply eat to live, and because the judgment sanctions the 
necessity; a good meal causes most of life's troubles to vanish. 

9. A cousant, equal and bounteous table pleases this person, especially if the steward 
of the house is an expert ; it affords such a mind more pleasure to sup at home or with 
friends, than abroad or among strangers; have a good relish for food, and tho taste is nice 
regarding it, but are neither gluttonous nor fastidious. 

10. Not having the voracity of Malic t. ilardiknute, or the debauched craving for food of 
Heliogabalus, Phillip II, of Spain, Charles VI, of Spain, Louis XI, Louis XIV, Louis XVI, 
George IV, can control this naturally rigorous appetite with the will; fond of plenty of rich, 
hearty solid nourishment; here appetite is stronger than the power to assimilate the suste- 
nance taken; rapid eating is one of this individuals great faults, likely to hurry into busi- 
ness or active thinking quickly after meals, thus deleteriously affecting digestion. 

11. Are a hearty, sumptuous eater, with strength to turn or convert what is consumed to 
use; nothing is more offensive to this mind, than to bt stinted at table; not dainty; thous- 
ands of men would give a small fortune for this appetite and good relish for food; yet one 
to compare but poorly with Phagan of old, who at one meal ate a whole boar, a hundred 
loaves of bread, and drank three gallons oi wine. 

12. Ever hungry and need no dainties to whet the palate and enjoy heaven while eating; 
almost a slave to appetite; generally swallow too much solid and liquid food for bodily and 
mental good; in this respect somewhat resemble Clodius Albinus, who would devour more 
than a bushel of apples at one sitting. 

A. Place the mind on what is consumed while at table, and talk about the last meal and 
that which may be ingulfed at the next; keep a good cook; eat often; never overeat; spend 
more time in sipping and masticating; take vigorous exercise daily in the open air, and 
avoid close study and original thinking. 

B. Apply the mind to consecutive mental labor; take only two moderate meals each day; 
indulge no more in potations pottle-deep, and take less of the surplus " corn juice; " forget 
not that intemperance in diet destroys the bulk of mankind; Henry I, of England, died of 
gluttony, and George IV, of gluttony and drunkenness; aged persons who consume the 
least food are the strongest; Cardinal de Salis, of Seville, in Spain, was remarkably sparing 
in his diet, and died at the age of one hundred and ten years. 

CTL^SS ^ \ .— f ^\\e v?vo\edWe KVvVvVve*. 

Resistativeness. -- Resistance. 

As cowardly as Altadas, African Selthos, 
or Domitian, the Imperial fly-ca'cher; the 
slave of weak and degenerate habits, idleness 
and voluptuousness; in times of danger, flee 
like a rabbit. 

2. A rusty, cankering mind, fraught with 
vicious thoughts, attached to a body filled 
with gross humors; idleness, the concomi- 
tant and abettor of cowardice, renders such 
minds dull, heavy and discontented ; no 
man's protective friend, and dare not be r.n 
avowed enemy; Sybarites-like, 

3. Inefficient, forgiving, pardoning, mild 
disposition; dislike to attack parties or prin- 
ciples and quite slow to defend without judg- 
ment sanctions; find no pleasure in running 
counter to the desires ot others; when danger 
appears such characters distrust 
succumb. 




Ram.— Large Resistance, 
hesitate, have qualms, misgivings, and are likely to 



]<; HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

1 B*th« mil.l Mid harmless; will succeed if not met by steru difficulties; not very 

shrink from contention; generally pacific; tolerant, nnresent- 

! cool-headed, given to moral rather than physical courage, and combatting 

licker than with the hands; unfit for military or executive office; deficient 

power; need enoouragement. 

in the vehement troubles of others, except to appease and 
willing to work if wound op and set a-going by persons or circumstances; 
nergy; generally concordant, amiable, tranquil and averse to war. 
Unirablf fro* from extremes in this faculty; usually unimpassioned, collected and 
yet under very irritating circumstances sometimes may chafe, become mercurial 
rible; not dogmatic; inclined to act protectively instead of offensively; prefer 
fa] life rather than one of war or daring adventure. 
7. Readily resent Intentional injuries; protect and defend the right; work well when 
-.• things drag slowly; neither contentious nor recusant; immeasur- 
1 by any competition or opposition. 
*8. Will assail and impugn the wrong; given to self-preservation, counter-stroke, recip- 
n; believe in the law of compensation; will vie with others in shielding well-doers, 
y.t disposed to avoid street broils, joust, digladiation, or prize fighting; no desire for 
oonfliot; enjoy living in peace, yet manifest staunchness in defense of the right. 

'.). When aroused by opposition evince decided spirit and much courage; prompt in 
action, and disposed to meet and master difficulty, and to repel onslaught and injury; 
engage freely where honor is the reward of exposure to danger; despise what is unjust, 
ungenerous or cruel; Crasar-like, know no mean betwixt all and nothing. 

1" The more dangers tbicken and threaten, and smiles convert into frowns, the 
more self-possession and bravery such minds display; will engage earnestly in business, 
work or study, and will drive on with a bold and fearless hand; usually good-natured, but 
if angered are rather sharp-spoken; strong powers to repulse and rebuff attack or aggres- 
lispoaed to overcome all opposition and obstacles, and if healthy and properly 
brought up, are industrious and energetic. 

II. Exhibit great natural energy in prosecuting every undertaking, it mattering not 
whether sunbeams or shadows flit across the path; valiantly defend just rights and inter- 
ests; lay siege and storm blinding prejudices and demoralizing evils with decided fervor; 
great power to resist opposition and encroachment; love debate; quite a tease. 

IS, A brave and courageous soul, not to be dallied with, and despising a mean-souled 
antagonist; never say "go," but ''follow me;" hate an idler, poltroon or a coward; can 
embolden, inspirit and encourage others; generally industrious and apt to engage in fiery 
OOntrOTeny and disputation; under excitement of anger are too mercurial; high-mettled, 
overweening, indiscreet, venturesome and Quixotic. 

A. Read the biographies of Ajax, Achilles, Scipio, Cynasgirus, Turenne, Ragusa, 
miou, Rapp, Suchet, and L. Conde, and strive to emulate their valor; study 
and practice the "manly art of self-defense;" debate and argue with everybody, and at- 
tempt to refate every new idea; ask for the proof of all theories, play at checkers, chess, 
domm ■.. | , lt id other harmless competitive games; leap the streams, clamber up the hills, 
m d drive young horses; brave the wind and storms, and allow neither to keep thee at 
home; each cold morning work or walk vigorously in the open air to warm, instead of sit- 
II the tire; always struggle to conquer adversity; be industrious and determined to 
too implish something and become somebody; remember that energy always accompanies a 
■aooesKful person, while idleness lead* to failure, destitution and crime; recollect, also, that 
re young men who wait for something to turn up, and that the things which first 
turn op are their toet; mingle with the world; let out your views and maintain them when 
ipple with every difficulty encountered, and never shrink from danger, looking 
ot enterprise in the mouth and sustaining a bold front under auy and all circum- 

to ev I le dl opposition and forego every species of argument; shun war and 

try to he more assenting, tranquil and concordant; if ill health ren- 

wearlsome, producing anger, Irritability, fault-finding, scolding, swearing or fight- 

idy and follow the directions given in the first portion of this book under A in 

t» heath; take s ohange of scenery; se.de harmonious associations and avoid 

blood by violent exercises; when too hot or too cold, perpetual mosquitoes 

,l : M "' • think silently, while mindful that the patient endurance 

r fortitude and heroism than is usual among men; resolved to 

leased, for a moments fury may bring long repentance and sorrow ; 

Bind tint » fit ot anger may kill you. as was the ease with the mother of Lord 

< l\ .. IdBJ Of Trine,, who lost his CTOWn and finally his life through his 

JUT. ° 

Autohegemony. Self-Estimation. 

sdinglv humble, never sounding the trumpet of self- 
praise, low minded, SC „i, rebmfiSve, and readily governed! full of self distrust, 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 17 

and have an intense dislike for persons who are consequential, supercilious or vain- 
glorious. 

2. The retiring modesty of such a nature resembles that of Emperor Nerva, and is apt 
to detract from one's chances of success; little self-confidence; unpretending, blushing and 
coy; extremely reserved and demure; disposed to associate with inferiors and fail to com- 
mand the respect of society; too diminutive in self-valuation. 

3. Have a moderate estimate of self; very backward aud ill at ease in society; shirk re- 
sponsibilities, and often say and fed " I can't;" often say and do little things; lack dig- 
nity, pride and self-sufficiency; so much abashed and humble in mind and bearing that 
others will often be dictatorial ami strive to run over such a modest creature; retiring and 
likely to keep in the background; diffident and over modest. 

4. Inclined to take private roadfl ami byways, instead of public thoroughfare; shy about 
meeting people who are not old acquaintances; will never lead in society; prefer to knuckle 
to others rather than t:> quarrel; will freely give place to others; inclined to submit to indig- 
nities, are not readily offended and are easily taken down; very humble and quiet in manner. 

5. A moderate degree of independence without being in the least imperious and over- 
bearing; deficient in self admiration; not at all stiff or pompous; when angry or indignant 
become self-assured and independent, yet never disposed to be assumptive; too meek and 
resigned to undertake great and important affairs, because not confident of success; lack 
pride, dignity and desire for elevation; wish to have liberty and entertain opinions, but 
perfectly willing that others should enjoy the same privilege. 

8, Possessing little grandeur of meiu, yet not wholly distrustful of latent ability, hence 
free from trifling or haughtiness; have a just self-estimate and are happily equipoised be- 
tween stateliuess and self-abnegation; neither egotistical nor shame-faced; unpreteuding 
and uuobstrusive; entertain a better estimate of friends and belongings than of self; to re- 
main obscure or become notable are both undesirable to one occupying the mean between 
lordliness and humility; by nature are neither aristocratic nor plebiau. 

7. If anifest a moderate amount of independence and possess more than is exhibited; 
experience in meeting with the world will strengthen and ripen this small self-confidence, 
which is fair but not in excess; haughty beings who are puffed up and disdainful are quite 
as repulsive to No. 7, as are ti. i through the world out of countenance, constrained 
and crestfallen; some slight traces of pride, little dignity, considerable independence but 
no conceit, charlatanism or pedantry. 

8. Fairly desirous oi preferment aud distinction, appreciate attentions from the great; 
inclined to self-reliance, loving liberty and hating oppression; a sjuI that looks up and de- 
sires elevation; not very dignified, but approachable and genial; never presumptive or arro- 
gant; when prosperous there exists an innate feeling of luttiuess and power, which failure 
modifies into composure and self respect; the native pride of such a soul has been repressed 
by anxieties and troubles. 

9. Have plenty of dignity without haughtiness; can grapple with error or enemies like 
a hero: feel little necessity for protection or sustaiument; love to be master of self interests; 
self reliant aud possess pride of character, which gives respect for one's own judgment and 
abilities; love liberty iu the most positive sense, possessing a strong desire to rise in the 
world, and having diguity sufficient to prevent acts which would reflect shame and disgrace 
upon the character or derogate from a noble purpose of self-sustainment. 

10. Small acts, or that which would cast odium or obloquy upon one, such a mind de- 
spises; rather rule thau be ruled; can go with the popular r unpopular party or principle, 
provided the judgment sanctions; great self respect and able, if desirous of winning the 
esteem of others; apt to be full master of Self; deport and express with diguity and self 
satisfaction. 

11. Ever fostering a pride of ancestry and delight in honorable thoughts and noble ac- 
tions; capable of assuming responsibilities; asking no advice except from courtesy; such 
minds are pleased when their opinions are consulted; inclined to self praise, yet may re- 
strain it if the judgment be good; not the least sympathy with what is mean or low, if the 
early training aud bringing up was correct. 

12. Feel like a personage of distinction, with inherent stateliness and pride: character- 
ized by Castillian dignity and often lifting up the eye-brows; engage in nothing except on a 
large scale; always feel free and easy, never abashed, unceremonious, self-confident, self- 
satisfied, self-admiring — entirely self. 

A. Cultivate the intellect and rely upon natural resources; determine to be a leader in 
society; accept any office or position that is offered; always take a front seat; converse with 
intelligent, worthy people, and hold up the head; speak out boldly and decidedly and never 
condemn or criticise instinctive thoughts as long as they bear the impress of right. 

B. Let meekness be the target of life's aim; remember that the violet is far more lowly 
than the sunflower and much more admired; study character minutely, thereby learning 
self-defects and how weak is he who glories and gloats over an excess of hollow pride; give 
place to others, help them and prefer thein to thyself; strive to cultivate tapernosis or hu- 
mility; wise Plato recommended humility in his fourth book of laws; avoid the proud and 
associate with the humble; always bear in mind that modesty of demeanor is virtue's at- 
tractive banner. 

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28 CHARACTER. 

Temporinaturalitiveness-— Time and Motion. 

— Motion is only another name for Time; 
they arc treated here as one faculty. 

1. As inert as a snake in winter; ever too late 
and wofuJly ill-timed in speech and action. 

2. In walking along will move as slow as mo- 
a on a cold day; always tardy and generally 

call at improper times; habitually lazy. 

3. Cannot aot on the spur of the moment; hardly 
]>< rceive what the occasion requires; jog along 

ishly ; constitutionally tired : a body rilled with 
- humors; a dull, sensual mind, hard to please; 
readily forget when things occurred; egregiously 
tail to keep time in music. 

4. Are slow of movement, take mincing steps 
and move little unless necessary; will saunter near 
or within sight of worthy and industrious people 

tivity. and feel no compunctions of conscience; often sur- 

from having a false estimate of time. 

II though no great desire to move; can remain quiet a long while; not swift 

rally late and behind band; make haste slowly, and in a hurry only 

ssive, having little motion and very feeble power; forget- 

: tim nts, and apt to stay longer than intended, especially when with 

genial associates, 

ii. r a speedy ohronographer nor a dilatory anachronist; take fair note of time 

and with some effort can keep the beat in music; enjoy punctuality, yet some- 

i! in keeping the exact time of an appointment being neither hobbling and slack 

peditioUB and nimble-footed; rarely before or behind time; balanced inaction and its 

•ion. 

Beeing the rapid flying pigeon skim through the sky, the deer and gazelle 

bound lightly over the plain, the eagle in his gyrations, or the lightning express train as it 

dashes onward like an enraged tiger, or the glaring rocket, as it mounts the starry dome; 

ride rapidly and know the sp^ed made; can beat the time to music very accurately; 

are punctual, if not too lazy. 

illy rather stirring, if healthy; occasionally calm, though not long still; are put 

■ .I if others are not punctual in keeping appointments: not so quick as 

OOBStanl in motion; can remember when important occurrences took place, that is, whether 

r after enj given period of note; perceive when musicians change the movement in 

a tun.-, or a p' raon hurries the gait in walking. 

' 11 its < i< :' do iscular action; there is little or no friction in the muscles; an easy 

walker, and naturally keep step t > the music in walking and dancing; with favorable talent 

h>r inquiring when incidents occurred ; love punctuality and have a time for everything, and 

•nrk in its appropriate term; can tell the time quite correctly without a time- 

•" I and well measured mind is able to comprehend that when the quantity 

• is multiplied by its relocity the product represents the force of the body in 

• Arousing to great action; often ohange place, position, gait and have no- 

.dully idle ,, r inactive; cannot bear a slow, dull person who is al- 

• hind tim lecided power of motion, and teel happiest when moving; can 

1 ir! only; always hasten and press onward. Samuel Johnson said 

tn< b pleasure as going forward, and thus are thy feelings; seldom ex- 

tion, 

11 ist; punctual to the minute in all business transactions; can 

ite conectly; are as restless and umasv as the ocean— 

the Up* d Of a race horse, bird, express train, 

'. slop, windmill, machinery, running river or wind; step 

w " 1 ' ' I h oa t. riKtio of this organization. 

tee; light-footed and exceedingly quick; delight 

ind often quicken the pace; d< in to be constantly in motion; 

ild i \c< l in walking or running a race; a superior 

th remarkable aoouracy the time of occurrences; 

''.v intuition, an i measure die time of eaoh respiration or 

th wonderl in imitate motion in gen- 

• . with reference t<> direction, also absolute 

. i" a particular period, to an effort or purpose 

bav< riora in judging of definite' dura- 






HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 1!) 

tion; regularity, frequency, periodicity, or portion of time or transit, speed, impulsion or 
bearing of a transitional object. 

A. Engage in a pursuit demanding great activity and punctuality; abandon the rocking- 
chair: dance, walk, run and keep constantly on the feet, strive to keep step to the music in 
marching or dancing, rely less on the timepiece and more on the mind to determine the 
hour; read the biographies of Lorenzo Dow, A. T. Stewart, and take pattern from their 
activity and punctuality; with an indomitable will determine to outrun everything; clap 
spurs to the sides of winning agility, and when all business and labor is in advance of the 
hour, move quickly and strain every nerve to keep the work ahead of the season; rise 
early, retire late and live actively and earnestly, as if each hour was the last. 

l'>. Retire early to rest rise late, eat more heartily, and alter each meal drop into the 
large arm-chair, or recline on the sofa and remain quiet for an hour; then when resuming 
labor, move slowly and do not accelerate the pace: learn that slow living is the most enjoy- 
able and contributes to lengthen life; practice prolepsis and inetaehronism, ante-date one 
letter, post-date the next, and leave the third undated; make no more notes in the memor- 
andum book, and do not turn analist or chronographer; cease that everlasting drumming 
with the fingers, and bear in mind that the world will get along just as well without you 
for a perpetual motion or a timekeeper. 

Playfulness. 

1. Have a horror of even the most innocent diversion; as saturnine, dismal and serious 
as a toad waiting for a fly beneath a cabbage leaf, a turtle at rest in the bottom of a rivulet, 
a sloth attending the funeral of his father, or a belle at home with a severe attack of night 
colic. 

2. Quite as prosy, sombre and moping as a sick cat; a slow, sleepy, forlorn person, 
joyless and flat; fail to appreciate high «lee and liveliness; have no fund of amusement for 
others and vice versa, and deem it foolish to take one's pleasure; a pointless, stolid, hum- 
drum, rueful soul. 

S. Disinclined to dance, hop or jump about; more disposed to take a book or paper, 
steal into the solitary woods and read accounts of sorrowful accidents, violent bloodshed, 
untold woes, hypochondriac reiterations, like Gulliver's Travels, the Arabian Nights, the 
Siege of Troy, the Crusades, or the Pilgrim Fathers. 

4. Now and then a little jolly and frolicsome, but inclined to be sedate; exercise, games 
and sports are generally unpleasant, if not repulsive; a sad heart struck disposition, that 
deems all amusement, recreation, and that which serves to pass the time pleasantly away, 
a sin. 

5. Take considerable delight in witnessing the antics of squirrels, lambs, monkeys, kit- 
tens, etc; but rarely, if ever, engage in sport, amusement, or contention for the purpose of 
achieving victory; an old-fashioned, cynical, grave mind that takes nearly everything in 
earnest. 

7. Enjoy dramatic composition and liberty of action; practice in a comedy, acting in a 
theatre, performances on musical instruments, accompanied with dancing or farce, sleight 
of hand, and other diversions have attractions for this mind, yet may not be much of an 
adept at any of them; fond of participating in refreshment after toil or sorrow. 

8. Whatever gives relief to weariness or serves to recreate or refresh, this mind can fully 
appreciate, as well as auy diversion, amusement or sport; take naturally to whatever gives 
amusement or entertainment, and enjoy pastime and relaxation. 

9. Quite fond of social entertainment and harmless amusement; parties with snap and 
catch them, levee with dancing, soiree with games, music, festivity, merry-making, play, 
frolic, carnival, masquerade; in fact, whatever serves to beguile time is thoroughly appre- 
ciated; are given to amuse others, and like to be diverted in such a manner as to lead the 
mind awa}' from the daily avocation and from exhausting care and trouble; inclined to 
think that buffoonery and tomfoolery drives away shadows, and transforms the time-worn 
being into another and brighter sphere. 

10. Keenly relish the romping sports of children, in fact, this is a youthful spirit, and 
will ever be so, even should five score winters whiten its owner's locks; are easily amused 
by anything jocund or sportive; a playsome nature that will delight to frisk, frolic, exult and 
romp with the children, without thinking that all dignity is lost and the world lowered and 
disgraced. 

11. A youthful being who will ever sport and be exhilarated by the sports and amuse- 
ments of yciuth; take extreme delight in the gambols and pranks of young animals or human 
beings; have no affinity for those who frown, or the pensive, dolefui, melancholic person; at 
this age are at times as piayfu) as if six years old and overflowing with good health and sur- 
rounded by happiness. 

12. As playful as a trout to which the boys have just thrown a handful of grass-hoppers; 
fat kittens are no more sportive after a repast of young mice than thou feelest and betimes 
manifest; take great delight in tickling a friend behind the ear with a straw, or stroking his 
nose with a feather when he is asleep; are quite a tease and have strong predilections for 
tantalizing. 



20 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

A : ; hup-, no faculty that causes one to appear more youthful or gives aid to 

rith m maoh us playfulness. The majority of people are too stiff and old in actions. 

repairing, it behooves the person to strengthen and increase the action 

,!tv, whioh turns age into youth. To do this one should have children and keep 

iuudfl to play with: take a romp outside with the youngsters and strive to imitate 

their pranks; engage in competitive sports, leap, jump, run, and do not be afraid 

. artery or producing an attack of apoplexy; join in ball playing, cricket, 

croquet, and if thought well, dance a little; play snap and catch with 

imnlate hilarity, until gradually it becomes natural and with ease; shake 

by -^rightfulness in action, and relaxation and divertisement of mind and 

]:. It y. a hare become an inveterate tease or a distressing tantalizer, then by all means 
honorabl.-, try to repress playfulness, by attending more closely to useful labor, thus work- 
ing off the surplus vitality that prompts to playful action, teasing pestering, etc. ; read more, 
trolio and jump less; cultivate and practice dignity; weep for the woes of others rather 
laugh it and mala- sport of their peculiarities; live life more in earnest and leave the 
carousing to tin- ohildren, to the cats and dogs that have nothing else more useful to occupy 
their mind-;; the whole soul having become bound up in foolish pleasures and trivial amuse- 
ment you most forswear them forever. Engage in some interesting and remunerative occu- 
: hat in it you may find a substitute and an antidote. 

Philomonotopicalncss.— Locative Habits. 

1 . Migratory and nomadic in practice and feelings as a North American Indian; a bird of 
passage. 

8. Entitled to the name of wayfarer, tourist and rover; without a house or dwelling- 
ring no shelter; never sick or grieved at separation from home; a natural straggler, 
i troubled with homesickness it was when quite young; may be strongly at- 
tached to persons, and for that reason may remain in one abode for years, yet devoid of 
inti us.-, inward devotion or enthusiasm for a place of habitation or resort; can travel and 
journey and appreciate the beauties of other lands. 

D ibled to stay anywhere, provided the stronger passions are gratified; find delight 
in traveling; oare little whether at or away from home; equally well satisfied with or with- 
being the owner of a residence. 

\ house or place of constant residence has few attractions for such minds; retain 
li r memories of birth-place and early associations; can change address with little regret, 
and will do no if the occupation renders it necessary; an unsettled, uneasy disposition. 

ttaohed to fatherland and feel contented there when fully occupied or among genial 
; uiinn-,, yet oonld sell the fireside, if possessed of one, and move away without feeling 
remorr | anywhere when doing well and associated with warm and true friends. 

irmly attached to the fireside; can leave it if necessary, but it seems pleasant to re- 
t, | n * ll b' go visiting or traveling with relish, acknowledge the need of an abiding 

auge local habitation only when financial or social advantages present stronger 
than household gods or the quietness of home. 

with fond delight the scenes of childhood; prefer to own a roof and couutrv^ 
wish and strive to render home attractive and pleasant; think the country of birth the be'st 
f " r ''' »urn and enjoyment, aside from moneyed interests. 

I itrong natural tie to the land of nativity; take pleasure in ornamenting 
Mansion, hermitage or cabin comfortable; dislike to leave the abode unless 
oiedby friends; when absent the mind often reverts to the old habitation and 
roundings. 

liffioult for such minds to lead a homeless life; eminently patriotic; desire to 




th gtrong local attachments; hive an inbred, deep and patriotic love of 

t to 1. ave borne or country and pleased to return; homeless is the s widest 

■1 t i hear; pa. si uately attaohed to eaoh tree, shrub, rock, nook and 

'■"' pwpb >ard, hearth, center-table, and the true old clock so patiently 

I Ij'fverj thing in and near the heme, the mind reverts in fond 

■k. 

ot constant rei : readily attracted to new 

■■• ' ■ I''-"., the old on s; thoroughly unhappy sway from home, especially 

rtte parental fireside; disinclined tSmore; 
'■> »"•! borne, n mspicions of the pro luctions of for- 

cing in it except that produoed o* made in 
lorn and beautify it w.il, works of art an 1 mechani- 
, ,, " ";' ' r-n. -r ,t .,„„f»r.,il,lo with the best the land affords; allow no merce- 

*"* dc " ,rc ' Ingit the most attractive place on earth. 




HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 21 

B. Sell the home and travel slowly in foreign countries, but do not attempt, as many 
have done, to visit North America and return to Great Britain or Europe, in six or eight 
weeks, with the conceit that you kuow all worth knowing on the western continent, buy 
little mementoes and keepsakes in every country visited; suppress prejudice by remember- 
ing that it ever associates with a narrow and iguorant mind; carefully examine everything 
before forming judgments or opinions; endeavor to appreciate the beauties of other lands. 

Tonireceptionality.— Reception of Tone. 

I. Have no more music than a brick; 
croak like a frog when attempting to sing; 
can execute tunes with a music-box or by 
turning a baud-organ only. 

2 Unable to discriminate between tunes; 
Handel's "Jubilate," and "The ('nation," 
by Haydn, seem much alike to ears of this 
formation; would signally fail to appreciate 
those soul-stirring airs once so b« -autifullv 
played by Holla, Costa, Paer, Giretto, Bpohr, 
Lafont, liayseder, Ashe, Carafa and Bertini. 

3. Considerably deficient in harmony, yet 
can discern that there is a difference b 
tunes; not passionately fond of music, yet 
are pleased with familiar airs, but tare little 
for difficult strains; will never become skill- 
ed as a vocalist, instrumentalist 01 o >mposer. ' 

4. Have an appreciation for music, yet 
can judge common better than difficult sing- 
tog or playing; may learn to play an intra- Unmnafo] Ear. 
ment mechanically, but arc unable to discern fine musical tones. 

5. Fond of nearly all kinds of music and wonderfully affected by it, but enjoy simple 
airs more than classical performances; have good taste in melody; can sing if possessed of 
a good voice; a monotonous speaker. 

G. Able to appreciate and greatly enjoy harmouious sounds, especially the incompara- 
ble singing of Catalani. Jenny Lind, or the* remarkably melodious performances of Jordine, 
Clementi, Krumer or Dietrich; with a good musical voice and practice may learn to sing 
by note, or play a musical instrument tolerablv well, without sufficient delicacy of ear 
to excel. 

7. Possess fair musical ability: very fond of music and can sing very well if possessed 
of • suitable voice; with practice may learn to perform on a musical instrument. 

8. Quite delighted with and can. it taught, readily understand pitch, tune and rhythm 
in musical sounds and accent, emphasis, polyphonism and intonation of the voice in 
spoken language; may perform acceptably on s musical instrument; the capacity to vocal- 
ize in music or speech depends on the voice and its cultivation. 

9. Simple melody elevates this mind and calms this spirit; have a nice ear and greatly 
enjoy good music or a fine oration; with a thorough education, perfect articulation and a 
melodious voice properly trained could discourse or sing in an entertaining manner. 

10. Have acutene?s and sensitiveness of ear, and take great pleasure in the kind of 
music suited to such a fine taste: with practice would take pleasure in the art over which 
the Muses presided, and become an expert in combining instrumental and vocal sounds, so 
as to please the ear; harmonious vibrations of air or a melodious succession of notes has 
an irresistible influence over this heart; adapted to study phonics, acoustics or phono- 
graphy; quickly grow impatient with a stuttering;, lisping or twanging speaker. 

II. A natural singer and musician, pleased with the most complicated harmony of 
modern musicians; quickly detect sounds out of tune; sudden, violent or abrupt noises hor- 
rify and disgust such a finely susceptible and sensitive auditory apparatus, bearing in this 
respect a resemblance to Haydn, whose death was caused by the sudden shock of Napo- 
leon's bombardment of Vienna. 

12. A musical prodigy, possessed of the most delicate and acute auricular organs; a soul 
brimful of melody; can compose music and excel in its performance, rendering with feeling 
and perfection the purest tone, harmony or expression; like Mozart, are able to detect the 
slightest jar amongst hundreds of instruments; although, perhaps, not practiced sufficiently 
to equal the reputed musical performances of Timotheous of old, yet are gifted with auricu- 
lar acuteness and fastidious delicacy. 

A. Attend good musical concerts, listen to the best musical talent of the day, keep a 
fust-class piano in the house and often invite the best performers to play; encourage sing- 
ers in the same manner; try to play, sing, whistle, hum, and study acoustics, phonics, pho- 
netics, phonography, phonology, diacoustics, as well as accent, articulation, enunciation, 
pronuncia'ion, euphony, elocution, vocalization, emphasis and music; do not wait foramaster 
like Giardini, a Fischer with his hautboy, or a Crosdil with his violoncello, to produce the 



IIEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

ui , , ,,ur car; but listen to every tolerable harmony, or simple 

i\i- little relish. Strive to practice music, and 
and remember that to attain superior excellence of rapid 
the unremitted labor of a life. _ 

k ve no natural talent for music are wasting valuable time in d< 
which is a more than useless expenditure of money, health, 
1 tim--; all tin se should never attempt the study of music; another class of per- 
A -ith culture, mechanical or soulless performers, yet might be of more 

3 by engaging in an occupation for which they are 
whistling and singing; dispose of the musical instruments and turn th« 
. and learn that music, when pursued with too much ardor, has a 
iv •.'(• if not debase mankind; are riding this music hobby to death, 
I friend; bear in mind what that great and good man, Dr. 8am- 
. i of mnafo: u No man of talent, or whose mind was capable of better 
1 or conld devote bis time and attention to so idle and frivolous a pursuit." 
' by -I. Wilson Croker, Philadelphia, 1843.) Recollect that many 
: the famous Humboldt brothers, Zelter says, were devoid 
"neither of the brothers had the smallest appreciation of music; to 
Williao wlutely intolerable, while Alexander regarded it as a calamile sociale." 

a Humboldt, page 2G, Vol. I., edited by Bruhns; published by Long- 
man? Ion; 1873.) 

Conceal it iveness.— Secrecy. 

1 . Hi WBpaper-like, hide no news or thoughts, mentally resembling a funnel; retain noth- 

i. transparent as crystal; artless, child-like, simple-minded and heart open to 

neyclical. 

inflding, easily induced to tell what is known; perspicuous soul; tell-tale face; 
are I ndthrift. 

. ive currency to news and^sometimes divulge too much; trumpet-tongued; 

[> <-nly what is absolutely necessary; deal largely in rumor, gossip and scandal when 

or when writing for the press. 

I. Th. k in- few occult recesses in such hearts; taciturn at times, but usually communi- 

oatory and plain spoken; sincere and hate deceit; plain and blunt in expression; can keep a 

• t"r a friend. 

:it« itain hearty contempt for the windy mazes of duplicity; occasionally inclined to 

unburden the mind to another; opaline and semi-transparent; rather reserved, especially 

- candid and straightforward in words and actions. 

tsed with false display of candor and mean artifices; neither simple-minded 

and childish nor subtle and sly; hate guile and trickery; can keep secrets when calm; but 

it are far too divulgeut. 

7 Wall adjusted in this ability, being between the extremes of cunning and openness; 

•rid honorable amount of secrecy; rarely disclose opinions until they are fairly ma- 

tared, and then with considerable reserve; usually honorable and sincere in expression. 

"ping a secret, and not likely to betray a friend; evasive at times, and 
policy, yet are pained to find insincerity, dissimulation and hypocrisy in 
and acquaintai 

kppear a little mysterious and somewhat insinuating to strangers, because very watch- 
in. t the most approachable; non-committal and self-restrained; will not 
trouble to hunt up a secret, but manifest considerable ability in keeping dark 
i likely id jure the character of self or friends. 

•. Ilent ability to keep a secret when pleased to use this faculty; not al- 

d, and some tin re air who never can understand such a mind; adroit 

■mil and tinaneial interests; able and willing to screen the iuno- 

■ 

11 Somewhat non committal and hard f.. r common minds to fathom; suitably qualified 

ippear to desire the undesirable; will pull every wiro and turn 

oinphdi u purpose; not always divulging the whole truth and sometimes 

il up a leit r, lock the safe, bury or hide valuables, conceal 

■ trap for oth< rs or expose deoept ion, fraud, delusion, quackerv, 

I- hood; particularly endowed as an efficient detective. 

.- m the airs assumed; singularly impenetrable and recondite; 

ognito; often inviting others aside for private interviews, 

when doing business prefer to have closed doors, and 

sunning, artful, designing, diplomatic time-serving, and Ifaohiavc- 

siblo, ami assent to the opinions advanced by others; 

-. and evade giving direct answers to questions; be 

iltivato the acquaintance of those who are notably shrewd 

aa honesty will allow; listen while others talk, and 

wnen may ask about ] IV lml , , lM(1 tum the conversat i ou i nt0 other chan- 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 23 

nels; beaYweli in mind, that one who is exce Singly expressive, declaratory and ingenious 
thereby givft^«|iiers the power to frustrate, if not entirely thwart nearly all plans and de- 
signs by proclaiming theua too soon. 

P.. Shun a deliver, hypocrite or liar the same as one would the black plague; abandon 
all society where gossip, tattle and calumny usurps the place of wit or instruction in the 
feast of cmiv. rsation; act boldly, and speak out loud and plain in a sincere, truthful and un- 
affected manner, and never ask what others say or think about it; associate with those who 
■xe extraordinarily communicative, and strive to imitate them in every commendable deed 
and word, until fully like them; cultivate plainness of manners and love of truth. 

Curvativeness. Judgment of Curves. 

1. Can no more find the way than a new-born babe; are lost at every turn and wonder 
which is the right way. 

2. Forget readily anything bent or crooked, hence unable to find the way over a road 
when travelled several times because the turns seem wrong and new: often fail to recognize 
the laces of friends; poor in spelling; devoid of all artistic talent. 

3. Cannot bear furniture with roundish legsj'globular dishes; piano or sofa with cylindri- 
cal ends; a Straight, water-level fence, or the angles and lines of a boose, are to similar 
minds, far more pleasing than the finest Roman arch or the most surpassingly perfect line of 
beauty; easily lost. 

4. Fail to remember a deviation or swerving from direct bearing in roads, machinery, 
letters, outlines, fences, faces, mountains, buildings, towers, tomb-stones or other materials'; 
the neck of the hog is as attractive to such an eye as that of the swan; a vault or arcade of 
St. Isaac's, St. Peter's or St. Paul's churches phases no more than the direct line or zigzag 
flash of lightning, or the rectilinearitj of a N\w York boulevard. 

5. Able to appreciate and remember a right hue better than a face; a ring or bracelet 
please no more than a cube, crystal, cut diamond, wedge or the perpendicular walls of a 
house; fail to perceive harmony in nature; inartistic and would mpasses and rule 
to draw the most familiar object. 

6. Evenly balanced in'this characteristic neither very expert in finding'the way nor easily 
lost; plain roads across plains with mountains in si<dit gWe no inoi nrenience to" those thus 
constituted, but winding mountain trails, wood paths or trackless prairies may confuse and 
cause one so capacitatad to lose the s 

7. Hounded and beautiful outlines excite admiration and attract such an eye, wh 

the rectilineal, serrated, forked and angular give a peculiar feeling of diseouteut aud dejec- 
tion; a fair memory of machinery, pla- . configuration of hills and water courses. 

1 he forms of faces, landscapes and routes of travel are generally recollected; horses, 
dogs, and other animals are rarely forgotten; are pleased with circular forms, rounded mod- 
els, a bow, the half mooa, whatever is devious, winding walks in a lawn, or among trees, 
the heart-shaped or vaulted, tine bows that neatly loop, bell-shape, ovoid, sphericle and epi- 
cycle, are also a very good judge of them. 

9. Have a natural aptitude for judging of curvilinear forms; if the eyesight is good, are 
able to recognize persons and thu seen; yet if careless about* noticing people on 
riv->t acquaintance, sometimes, may forget them; the winding and curled instruments of a 
brass band, rolliug balls, whirling wheels, each give pleasure to one thus organized; not 
easily lost; love symmetry. 

10. All natural curves, and windings of roads, rivers, hills, mountains and ravines be- 
come strongly impressed on such memories; have in this respect the mind for a good pilot, 
guide, steersman, cicerone, charioteer, coachman, explorer, navigator, traveler, or artist; 
retain well the figure or appearance of a body or the boundary line of an object; cannot 
always call by name persons known by sight; enjoy harmony iii political, literary, social or 
domestic circles, with proper early education, should spell and read well. 

11. Can recollect faces and curves with remarkable accuracy, and rarely, if ever, forget 
the route once traveled; can fiud the way equal to a swallow or dog; machinery, patterns, 
fashions, animals, build of a ship, streets of a city, scenery, pictures, landscapes, attitude, 
trimmings, ornamentations, and all that is elegant, graceful, harmonious, picturesque and 
artistical, are durably and distinctly impressed on such a mind; ought, with training and 
practice, to write a good hand. 

12. Possessed of a fine taste for art, decoration, chirography, spelling, reading, deport- 
ment, reproduction, carving, architecture, building, modeling, shoemakiug, blacksmithing, 
sculpturing and pattern-making, and cannot tolerate the slightest departure from the pat- 
tern; prefer to counsel aud act harmoniously with others; able to remember with unfailing 
exactitude, vista, perspective, mien, guise, cast, port, carriage, demeanor, expression, con- 
tour, spectacle, mirage, cycloid, tortuosity, spiral, convolution, rotundity, and all complex 
or simple circularity, and faces and places. 

A. Notice the configuration, outline aud exteriority of everything; endeavor to trace fam- 
ily resemblauces aud those who are related by blood; study phonography and physiognomy, 
and criticise every facial feature; practice drawing, spelling, reading, sculpturing and trav- 
eling; dispense with a guide; take a compass and strive to find the way wherever and when- 
ever traveling. 




24 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

Engage in an occupation where straight lines and angles abound; instead of working 
with a painter's brush, or in soft goods, like the tailor and milliner, enter a field of labor 
where hard substance require* to be worked into planes, lines, angles, folds, pointed, ensi- 
f,, rll unrated or digitated; have a square table to eat or write on; use furniture . 

xu m ( ,h. rein oornera and plane surfaces are more numerous than rounding forms; 

ind evade all art galleries, and at length those imaginary figures, such as 
lerchant Abudah, and Koger d Oxteyn, may entirely disappear from the 

Accumulativeness.— Desire of Possession. 

1. "When fortunes fall to such characters they 
are soon squandered; a thriftless prodigal; appa- 
rently born under the star of disaster; wreck and 
ruin mark all touched; liviug to no purpose. 

2. Poverty, indigence and distress come from 
one of the following causes, which are mentioned 
in the order they usually occur, the first being the 
most common cause of pauperism: idleness, dissi- 
pation, extravagance, mismanagement and misfor- 

QPP^ tune; failure, bad circumstances, destitution and 

' ' 'tt-'.-^' &&ol generally accempany minds of this quality; one 

^^ resort only is left for such people, and that is a 

house established at the public expense for the 

benefit of the poor. 

3. Manifest little, if any, economy in financial 
transactions; too free-hearted and munificent; gen- 
erally pressed by hard times, from spending injudi- 

Miwrly Hand <>f an Aged 8pin6ter. ciously the money obtained; buy without first ask- 

ances and circumstances are applied to a great disadvantage; love money 

purpose of using rather than saving; can gather information and knowledge more 

. than property. 

I. Slow to perceive opportunities for commercial enterprise and success, hence a luck- 

i ill-starred tradesman; not likely to acquire large possessions of any kind; not 

ambitious to be the wealthiest, but simply desire a fair competence. 

hi comprehend the means of increasing wealth, yet are more theoretical than prac- 
tical regarding gain; more adapted to making than saving money; consider wealth of little 
value except as a means to gratify the desire of other faculties; unfit to bargain, barter, 
:, loan, apportion, donate, appropriate, purloin, etc. 
I Desirous of occupying the golden mean; wishing to more than make a living, yet 
rity or moderate circumstances accords well with parallel minds; will neverbe 
iofa or reach the dolorous extreme of indigence; dislike to beat down in price; 
able to ap] perty, though not a very successful financier. 

7. HarmoniouslJ balanced in this faculty, worshipping neither oppulence nor penury: 
ip of tor the rich and do not despise the poor; are frugal, chary, and economical 
with means when ; are not ambitious to amass wealth similar* to Croesus, Dives, 

lb rr Krupp, or Commodore Vanderbilt. 

B. Wish t,, 1),. bighrj raooesaful and flourish; strive to be economical, whether owning 
OT little; mote apt at making than saving property; not penurious or miserly: will 
[ties of lite, yet puce a fair value on acquisitions; can make and'spend 
' will not lik.-ly come to want. 

osl be unfavorable if like characters do not increase in worldly 

• t lil" rty and property, yet desirous that friends share the happiness of 

possession; dislil ;in^'s going to waste, hence try to be saving yet supply neces- 

: n anxiety to acquire property, and may accomplish it some day if placed 

Table oiroumetanoee; will strive to get the value of money when investing it, yet are 

10. I i and thrive affords analogous tastes, great satisfaction; would like to see 

olr..u.is and of commerce extended everywhere: there is natural enterprise 

• • pi) m hi,- hearts; ever discovering new res 'ure< s from which to draw wealth; 

IS and avarice of the nigg ml. 

property ami to Inon asi >ns; wealth is not productive 

tlpable excess, which it is to be hoped that continued suc- 

<*** * n ' 'his mind; the recipient of good fortune and many a god- 

r th' future in this world by oonttnued industry, enterprise and fru- 

'-'■ ' rHhip of acqnired property, and eager to gain more, and 

wield a moneyed influence ; will likely be rtry wealthy some day, it not so alreadv ; 

■ make money; everything touched by sim- 
irn to then- advantage; remarkably fortunate, and in danger of 
e; unless this faculty is soon repressed it will be- 
l. <• raltii venality and avari 



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25 





Polygamic Love. 



Exceedingly Loving. 



Monogamic Love. 

; resemble John Ban- 
also Thomas, Arch- 



A. First and foremost resolve to get rich through industry, economy and reasonable cal- 
culation, in order to enjoy leisure, which gives time for reflection, the forerunner of all pro- 
gress; do not purchase everything desired; spend very little time in visiting; devote nearly 
the entire wakeful hours to business; engage in well-timed speculation and court healthy 
competition; study the natural laws of supply and demand; enjoy life rationally and propor- 
tion the expenses to the income, always keeping the income the larger of the two; however 
small the income scrupulously and regularly lay aside, at least, a small portion of it, and 
that saved may keep one from the verge of want in old age, and become a help and a bless- 
ing to self and the loved ones; enshrine in the memory the following sentence: it is more 
pleasant to draw on the bank than to depend on the poor house; never mind failures and 
disappointments, all have them, and it seems they are to try the metal of individuals; good 
minds rise after trouble like kneaded dough, whereas worthless people melt away as spuri- 
ous coin subjected to acid; never ask a friend for assistance, but rely entirely upon innate re- 
sources; property tends to enhance a person's energy and strength, from the reason that 
one will exert more vigor and force and cultivate his own better than what belongs to a mas- 
ter; unite practical wisdom with capital, and above all keep the armor bright with honesty 
and earnestness of porpoe 

B. Think less of property, but more of soul; cease trading and devote a larger share of 
time to gathering valuable thoughts, and acquire a noble way of thinking; cultivate com- 
mendable humility, and remembex that without the higher virtues, such as liberality, re- 
spect, faith, honor, a cultivated mind and good conscience, all worldly wealth is but a 
phantom. 

Monoeroticity. -Love for the Opposite Sex. 

1. About as unloving as 
an ict 1 

2. The tender passion of 
love has never been kindled 
into a flame within this 

have more 
tcerbitj and animosity than 
liking ; without favorites 
among the opposite sex, fail 
to enlist the bewitching predilection in others 
dolph, who was displeased with all women ; 
bish of York, who said woman was worse than disease. 

3. Bachelorhood or spinsterhood would well accord with your tastes; cold and coy 
toward the opposite sex, and at times feeling aversion and disgust, at others slightly amor- 
ous and erotic: rather stoical, like Zeno of Citium, iudiftVrent to pleasure or pain ; treat 
the other sex with respect, yet neither expressive in love nor as loving as the generality of 
people; fall in love easily, and jump out of it quickly. 

4. Occasionally admire those seen, and the affections and feelings become somewhat en- 
listed, but not sufficiently to continue interested; exhibit more platonic than ardent love; 
fond of fondling and kissing the loved one, but not given to sex-passion or licentiousness. 

5. Often take a fancy to those differently sexed, and become ingratiated in their feel- 
ings; slow to be led by Cupid's jokes, yet when once fully pledged to exclusive affection, 
there are none more true; woman like, will cling to the loved object, while it contains a 
shred of purity. 

G. Moderately inclined to manifest affection, yet not likely to abuse this faculty, as do 
the great mass of people, or become an imperious libertine, or a love-lorn celibate; when 
once fully in love will possess, if not exhibit, much exclusive devotednees. 

7. Kespect and acknowledge the tenderness of conjugal attachment; clinging, true, 
and faithful in attachments to one, yet not disposed to love promiscuously; not uxorious or 
erotic. 

8. Feel an innate love for one of the opposite sex; have an e very-day, plain, unsentimental 
and unromantic sort of love, that wears well and strives to prove faithful; to love and be 
loved, is the highest delight of such a character. 

9. On such food as love a mind like this can nourish itself ; not very demonstrative in 
love, yet desire the good graces and fend caressings from those loved; have a pure, profound 
affection, which partakes more of the spiritual than the carnal nature. 

10. Persons with such a strong, monogamic taste usually become valuable members of 
society; unhappy unless often in the company of the opposite sex; love is a powerful impel- 
lent to this character, either for good or evil, according as the judgment guides and directs 
the warm flame; this is a fertile, deep, absorbing affection, that if rightly mated will love 
on more and better every day. 

1 1. Those prominent, liquidly moving eyes bespeak an excellent share of ardent love ; cap- 
able of loving deeply and well, if truly mated; have had many love experiences, and some 
of them smattered largely of romance; direct rightly this love nature and it is sufficiently 
strong to become a vast source of pleasure some day, and revitalize the entire constitution. 

12. The erotic passion and salacious tendencies are nearly uncontrollable in this nature; 
none kuow so well as this heart its own temptations; this is an ardent, amatory, passionate 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

inting Mid bewitching power over the other sex; always liking and winning 
v little attentions to the opposite sex; are enormously teeming and 
other Bex by day and dream of them at night. 
ire every tender tie; it you lose your object of love, lead such" 
. In'.- that another will love you; continue in caressing, kissing, 
ooing, loYing and well doing; strive to imitate the devoted love Elanora 
• . or that poetic passion between Aeneas, the Trojan prince, and Dido, 
krthage, mentioned by Virgil and Ovid; try to get into favor by 
very honorable means to become more popular in society; adorn 
. with a little of the very best jewelry, aud array with care every article of cloth- 
Ing; ,. n lornpolonsly clean; cultivate attractiveness by becoming more mindful and atten- 
• , the opposite lex, showing them at once and at all times, and in all places, the utmost 
B, ! g nd. heed, care, civility, respect, politeness, and endeavor to make a favor- 
k the company of the opposite sex more and oftener; treat them with 
kind sets and pleasing words; make more of those loved; leave a door open to reconcilia- 
tion when differences arise, to prevent endeared and tender affection from running into ex- 
ktred; praise those yon admire, and guard faithfully with judgment against the 
ish and turbulent assaults of jealousy; upon every trifling occasion, or the omis- 
uouy, don't consider that a slight is intended; remember that jealousy 
-tic plague, that gnaws into the vitals, haunting at home and disturbing personal 
iiu us reason into folly, sours the sweets of life, predilection becomes hatred, 
in 1 the lever of jealousy corrupts the beautiful aud good in self and others, invites rude- 
l 1 1 1 transforms serenity into frenzy. 

imdeavor to regulate all actions by philosophy; read tentative works and abjure fic- 
tr in mind that chastity is the body-guard of conjugal affection and the peace of 
the society of the pure minded and shun those who are questionable in vir- 
oeasc tn think and talk of sensuality; direct the thoughts into other channels; sink 
I Iv tin- following in the mind; love rightly governed and grounded on virtue and prin- 
ciple* resembles a diamond, durable and hard to be broken; the love nature is an energizing 
:t hening power, giving nobleness and long life to the individual if rightly trained 
in 1 .i;i' oted, but when abused, and it is more grossly misused than any other human en- 
rment, it produces greater misery and unhappiness than every different attribute. 
Myriads of people in every society are abnormally sexual, and yet ignorant of the fact, 
i 'in thai cause plunge themselves and others into unhappiness; abnormal sexuality 
is the cause of more physical and social misery than all other evils combined. Love in ex- 
cess r . i i 1 1 -. health and blights all prospects of becoming intellectually distinguished, trans- 
thc warmest and purest lover into selfish coldness, or into the coarse libertine and 
vengetul tyrant. 

Chromaticalness.— Perception of Color. 

1. Completely color blind; discern light and darkness, day and 
night. 

2. Fail to notice the mild shades of color; can tell brown from 
blue and black from red, and scarcely more; very little idea ot colors, 
and seldom notice them. 

:{. A fine form attracts this mind more readily than the most 
gaudy hues; have more taste and talent for sculpturing or archi- 
tecture than for painting; more fond of florid and showy colors 
than dingy or sombre shades. 

1. Find some interest in viewing fine flowers and beautifully 
^W blended tints; take some pleasure in hues and shades, though not 
-"" ■ much; inapt to notice finer tinges and interblendings of the most 
lioate dyes; Inadapted to paint in oils, in distemper or in fresco. 
i with delicate hues and shadows; with experience in judging colors might he- 
hat dt" an . Xpert if the articles were side by side or near together, that the eye 
th it tie- lame tune; unable to become a skilled workman in portraiture or lan'd- 
MtM 

tble <>f judging d< oided colors, and able to recollect them, with 
i with nic< . Mendings of the neutral tints; the motley and dappled 

seem especially well t" suit this eye; could never become practically an expert colorist. 

;th artistically arranged hues, yet have no passion or enthusiasm for loud 
admire th lUbdued tOfl IS and half tones in superior photographs; judge 

oompl< fairly well, andean remember them, especially when "having given 

n; to color, or represent objects byoolor, is not the strong point of this 

• 

x ' •" : w. II indicated lights and shades; with praotioe could mix, arrange, 

\ : '" l di oriminate the appearance or hue which bodies present to the eye, 

is transparent or without color; might at times fail to distinguish 

when the attention is fully called to a tulip, violet, buttirfly, pea- 

I i form an opinion pretty correctly of their hues. 




HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 27 

'.*. Take a great interest in delicately colored works of art; would delight in visiting the 
art galleries of southern Europe, where the warm colors give depth and attractiveness to 
paintings; although the act of representing objects by colors is a superficial, imitative cun- 
ning, deceitful and fraudulent plagiarism on nature, yet such a mind could highly enjoy 
the finished and angelic Mendings of colors in the masterly works of Bellani, Titian, Gior- 
gione, Velasquez, Murillo, Da Vinci, Angelo, Giotto, Raphael, Corello, Vanloo, Le Pou- 
sin, Vernet, and Bonhear. 

10. Perfectly delighted with portraits in oil, where they are drawn so faithfully as to 
represent the minds of men with life-like, breathing freshness and identity, as if ready to 
Step out of the frames; have the capacity to closely scrutinize contrasts or harmonies in 
complexions and dresses; any abberration or violent contrasts in coloration highly offend 
this taste, naturally adapted to the science of color or chromatics. 

11. Scarcely a tint, however Boft, escapes notice; gifted with natural ability for the fine 
especially where color, as well as form, plays an important part; iu depicting, work- 
ing in encaustic, enamel, or scenic painting would exhibit remarkable nicety iu arranging 
lights, shades, tinges and huts harmoniously; possess a refined gift for representing active 
or still life; highly enjoy contemplating iridescent and polychromatic flowers, or the soft 
and balmy bloom of the cheek, lit up by the eye of love and friendship. 

18. Have decided talent for that part of the plastic arts whore shades and hues are 
indispensable; passionately fond of tine painting*; find pleasure in the marbled, dappled, 
opaline, veined, roseate, fallow, citrine, azure, virescent, lavender, apricot, drab, sombre, 
bans, and all the rariegated oomminglings which the most consummate skill may, in good 
taste, depiot with black, white, gray, brown, and all the primitive and complementary 
colors; acutely sensitive to fine shades; retentive memory of tincture, complexion, cast, 
dye or stain; enjoy bright colors when artistically displayed. 

A. Visit galleries of fine paintings, such as the Louvre in Paris; the Old and New Gal- 
leries in Munich; the Vatican in Home; the Royal Gallery of Madrid; the iiscnrial in 
Spain; Liehtenstein's Gallery in Vienna; the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and others in 
Venice, Florence, Milan, Naples, etc., and contemplate and study out the beauties of the 
works by the old masters. Notice the varied shades of colors in the foliage of forests or 
in the earth's green carpet decked with attractive flowers of a hundred hues, and observe 
the ever-changing golden and silvery colors ami tints of the sun on cloud and sky; then 
give attention to the beautiful plumage of birds and varied colors of insects and animals, 
remembering that colors are Nature's marks of distinguishment, while they constitute one 
of the charms of life; study chromatics, and learn that all color is caused by vibrations 
of the etherial medium, those of different lengths producing different colors; the longest 
waves produce heat only; shorter and quicker give red, and as they become more rapid 
they produce orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet; still shorter waves give chem- 
ical effects alone; red rays are fir-t visible, and are .36900 of of an inch long, and vibrate 
458 millions of millions of times in a second; violet rays are last visible, and they vibrate 
727 millions of millions of times in a second, and measure each .61516 of an inch, each wave 

-iug through ether at the rate of 102,000 miles in one second; and thus pursue the study 
of color, until the faculty shall become sufficiently active to drink in the external beauties of 
Nature aud answer every noble and useful demand of life. 

B. Wear nothing gorgeous or gaudy, and live in a cloudy climate and foggy, smoky loca- 
lity, and shun artistic works by famous artists; don't conclude that, because able to daub or 
paint a fence, that the perception of color is large, and become ambitious to be an artist; 
put in mind that art, like poetry, belongs principally to the imagination and tends to repress 
pure intellect, which is a higher type of mind; high art flourished in its glory in the extreme 
southern peninsulas of Europe during the ignorant ages, and gave its expiring groan more 
than three and a half centuries ago in the death of Raphael. There have been many star 
artists imd celebrated painters in Italy, Spain and Greece, who have been liberally rewarded 
for their labors; but the great mass of them have generally been utter failures; success wins 

•sympathy and respect, therefore avoid an occupation where so few opportunities are open to 
lead a prosperous, cheerful life and win renown. 

Demolitiousness.— Inclination to Destroy. 

1. As free from malignancy as a rabbit; a tame soul, 
fraught with estimable wishes for the world; chock- 
full of tender, hurtless, harmless feelings; cannot 
witness, cause, or endure pain. 

2. An uninfluential and slack person, nearly de- 
void of executive force; languor and torpor mark 
thee as inefficient, yet when greatly aroused will ex- 
punge, erase, immolate and mow down for a while 
with considerable force ; yet such seasons are of 
brief duration. 

3. Dislike to break, crush or tear down, and re- The Tiger. Greatly inclined to Destroy. 
quire the forceful mind of another to wake thee up to respectable thoroughness and 
efficiency; wanting in proper resentment and animal strength. 




28 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

4. One of those MSJ-going souls; are energetic and forcible only when greatly aroused, 
hut are not inclined to hruise. wound, maim or cripple any living thing, much less to 
anybody; will work well when liberally paid. 

re nor Imrsh with any one; slightly inclined to exterminate weeds and 
leemed useless or offensive; lack depth of indignation; yet are occasion- 
ally ilj it highly angered; when greatly aroused are quite vigorous in action 
. arp in criticism, but in nowise savage or cruel. 

,:.■ willing to work but need a strong incentive or somebody to rouse and set thee 
like ;i watch are very good to go when wound up and started by some one else; have 
1 executive ability to give a fair amount of indignation; sometimes lack- 
ed dislike to give paiu or witness death. 
7 A trolj good worker when once fully interested; hate to see things drag slowly 
ulong; like to move on and execute what plans have been formed; delight in eradicating 
ping away nuisances, do away with the worn out, break up social evils, 
v. rthi aid tyrannical powers, and sustain by force what judgment dictates; yet are 

forbidding when enragi d, though not at all savage. 

i ike hold of every ( ntt uprise as if in earnest, and prosecute all undertakings with a 

good measure of spirit and executive force; capable of enduring pain without wincing; when 

It rril.lv in earnest, and if uneducated will be a little rough-handed in pushing 

Ogfa the world. 

9. A character carrying a large amount of executiveness and force; people must get out 

of the way or be pushed aside; are rather uneasy and peppery if obliged to wait long for 

\ in to expending force in useful ways, such as breaking up land, clearing 

error and abolishing ignorance, and are very desirous of leading a life 

of industry and usefulness. 

lu. This character possesses great force and power of executiveness; will pull down, over- 
turn and put an end to useless institutions and effete governments; are ordinarily good na- 
tural, though when provoked to anger will evince a sharp and rather severe temper; can 
bear pain resolutely or inflict it on others when excited, and will not flinch from what is 
deemed right under the circumstances; given to dislike rather too much and like too little; 
s. i many faults that are unmentioned; when once interested in a job of work will drive on 
with that strength or vigor which when well directed surely acc3inplisb.es aud overcomes 
i v- ry opj OSition or hindrance, 

11. Heavy laden with the capability of producing evil or good according as this faculty 

is directed by the intellect ; when once really angry it requires a long time to get over it; 

to forgive and never forget an intentional injury; possessed cf great physical 

tfa when aroused, and deal heavy blows if greatly angered; are exceedingly enduring, 

thorough-going, energetic, and when angry become sarcastic and severe. 

18, Ever driving along the enterprises of life; efficient, thorough, and bring with great 
tore, the propelling power to exterminate enemies and whatever may be inimical to self in- 
lingly enduring and executive, and when enraged take pleasure in the 
downfall of an < oemy; in war would revel in the crash, stunsb, and havoc made in the lines 
Of ■ foe; when - nragi d are nearly as cruel and unfeeling as Phalaris, or John Calvin when 
he burn, d to (hath 3ei veins, at Geneva, with green faggots, that the pain might last longer. 
n tun was a celebrated physician and eloquent preacher, but disagreed with Calvin in 
creed. 

Break up new th Ids of land, cut down the trees, tear down the old house to find a 

. build railroads, ships, canals, and search continents for treasures both 

natural and artificial, go shooting and fishing, and don't fail to laugh when the worm or in- 

lect, tortured by the hook, straggles for freedom from pain; when a whole charge of shot 

-I in some harmless rabbit or dove, go at once and crush his head with the heel, 

any barbarian would; compete for the prize in shooting; 

ad overcome them; the army is an excellent place to cultivate destructive- 

thi re tea vast amount of active service; but as this facultv is gene- 

thia hurry-go-fast, scrambling, harsh, severe age, we shall turn'to its re- 

itralnt 

I Britain and America, murder is yearly on the in- 
crease, Into account the advance in population, and this, 'like* every other 
■■• Inch is th it millions of mothers are coarctating nature by fceti- 

lerthal children inherit a teadenoy to kill when murder was the 
ruUng thouf hi m th. mothers mind Let,. re the birth of her child; it is well known that the 
I th. mother's mind are iinplauted in her ehild before his or her birth; then 
live like K ood m .tl.. is. ami cease to us,, any means to kill a ehild before birth, remembering 
1 by ill-health in this world, and by the hatred and contempt of the angel 
nee m the next world; nun should avoid the army and shun 
l i""r and bloody scenes; if possible, never imbrue the hands in blood at 
pathy for animals, and when the lamb, horse or ox is no longer of 
eervJei'. <h.: m r cut hia throat and cannibal-like eat him ; i nm from thy 

lint of civilil instead; ham to reason cm right conduct towards ani- 

mals snd mankind and hw mote through and by ennobling reason, improving sympathy 






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HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 2i) 

and winning love, and less in vengeance, revenge, debasement and malice; allow no paper 
or book to enter the home that gives glowing accounts of murders, executions or vile acts; 
move out of the lowest part of the animal nature into the realms of charity, justice, pity, 
reason, and respectful and cheerful obedience to a higher manhood and purer womanhood. 

Philonepionality. Love of Young. 

1. Hate children as much as Con- 
stantino the Great, who killed his son 
Crispus, or Irene, who put out the eyes 
of her youngest son. 

2. Calmly indifferent about pets and 
children; dislike to be troubled with 
babes or young animals. 

3. Enjoy the society of the little ones 
when they are large enough to manifest 
friendship, nnd use reason and judg- 
ment in taking and answering ques- 
tions, ytt soon disgusted with the crying 
baby. 

I. Can tolerate well-behaved child- 
ran; will defend them rather than see Cow and Calf.— Great Love of the Young. 

them misused, yet bare no passionate love for thorn; if a parent, will strive to do just duty 
towards children. 

5. Have no great hatred or love for young dependants; love children in a parental man- 
ner, except those of others; easily disturbed by crying or noisy children. 

6. Often sympathize with the young in their spoits and foibles; have a fair degree of 
love for juveniles; less interested in those of others, uuless they are cleanly, intellectual 
and good. 

7. Are beautifully balanced in this faculty; neither remarkably devoted to little urchins, 
nor pleased by seeing them govern 1 severely; generally rather lenient towards them, espe- 
cially if they are well disposed. 

8. The loss of a child would give poignant grief ; love children as little friends; as a 
teacher or associate, would secure th-ir goodwill and friendship; as a parent, would be 
affectionate, attentive, kind and devoted; at times indulgent. 

9. Take marked delight in the young; likely to bare some house pet, and manifest a 
loving interest in it; enjoy the company and sports of pets and children — can easily win 
their love and tolerate their funks. 

10. A heart th.it yearns in behalf ol lid in distress; admire every well-dressed, 
cleanly, and kindly-behaved child seen; readily win the good graces of kitten, foal, cub, 
pup, calf, lamb, or youngster, and quickly become deeply attached to them; a tender, fond 
affection wells up in this mind and attracts animals and children to it, even the darling 
baby is not afraid of such an one, so full of forbearance, love, tenderness, and affection- 
ateness. 

II. Here children find a sympathizer and protector; liable to adore and idolize them; 
sometimes too lenient with them; disposed to overlook their faults and magnify their 
virtues; in order to feel fully satisfied must have a pet cat, dog, fawn, lamb, boat, horse, 
bird squirrel, doll or baby. Truly the paternal feeling is ingrained in every desire and 
feeling of this soul. 

1'2. Take great delight in young plants, auimals and children, especially the latter; 
nevor more happy than when surrounded by the beaming faces of merry children; a 
general favorite with them; the deep tender love of this heart utterly precludes one from 
willfully harming a child; would rightfully consider Charles F. Freeman, of Pocasset, 
Massachusetts, who deliberately killed his little daughter, Edith, in obedience to what he 
says was a command from heaven; a religious bigot, fanatic, more correctly — barbarian; no 
command could make a person, with the tender parental love of No. 12, become a second 
Abraham. 

A. In order that this faculty shall show its full strength and continue to increase in 
power, one should be where children and pets are a large share of the time, and engage in 
taking care of them; ask those in the leading strings and those in their teens questions and 
answer theirs, associate with those who are passionately fond of nurslings and whipsters, 
and listen to their words of endearment; pardon their shortcomings and engage in their 
sports and foibles; keep pets and feed them; be gentle and handle infants, unfledged birds, 
kittens, puppies, lambs and tender new born life with very much care and attention; join 
and strive to enjoy the sportive, jovial, festal, rompish amusements of little urchins; keep a 
sunny side of the heart ever open to their advances and at length the love of the young will 
strengthen until they are no longer a tax or burden, but become to all appearance cherubs 
from heaven overflowing with innocence, purity, unalloyed friendship and every noble attri- 
bute of human character. 

B. Govern the affection for the young with the judgment, be more strict and exacting 
with children and pets; remember that excessive indulgence, pampering, humoring and over 






Til AND CHARACTER. 



Linguisitiveness. 




Daniel Web6ter— Large Language. 



fondness spoils children: allow them to amuse themselves; seek the company of adulter 
old persons; aToid being where an infant or very young person lives: talk little with the 
ohildlees who are extremely anxious to have an heir; never speak of a much-loved, and lost, 

I Lil'l. 

-Spoken Language. 

1 As dumb as a giraffe; in this respect like 
J. F. Navarete, alias the Titian of Spain, a 
celebrated Spanish painter, who was deaf and 
dumb from his infancy. 

2. Barrenness in expression characterizes 
each oral effort; in composition and literary 
productions they are all marked by feebleness 
of style; as all thinking is done in words the 
verbal deficiencies of this mind denote its weak- 
ness. 

3. Cannot express ideas by tongue or pen 
with freedom ; ambiguous and obscure and it 
is difficult to understand the unintelligible jar- 
gon and mumbling such a person gives forth. 

4. May be a rapid speaker, yet are not ver- 
bose; can write thoughts better than speak 
them; find it difficult to converse well, unless 
excited by opposition or the questions of oth- 
ers; use but few and familiar words; inexpres- 
sive and at times barren and vague; in style 
quite lifeless. 

5. Capable of talking tolerably well only 
win n deeply interested; generally prosy and tame of speech, simple and unadorned as a 
writer: not adapted to produce ingenious turns or energetic expressions. 

6. Language is to thought what bark is to a leafless tree— the clothing and visible repre- 
sentative of it; the bark on thoughts from such minds, is rather-rough, gummy and thick, 
\. t not the most so; lack heart-stirring eloquence, yet may register knowledge in homespun 
composition; can manage to be understood. 

7. Love to listen to an eloquent orator; practice and culture would make such an one 
write well, yet not highly gifted in vocal communication; rather loquacious when among 
familiar friends, thougl/unornamental and monotonous; more vigorous than flowery. 

8. Although not highly adapted as a prolocutor, orator, or to shine in Belles Lettres, 
yet can comprehend readily the meanings of words; more simple than elevated in style of 
authorship; give more accuracy of ideas than elegance, propriety and purity of expression. 

!>. May not care to be an isolated scholar or a sage shut up in a closet, yet if this mind 
had bean educated, its effusions would be sententious, lofty, chaste, with well rounded pe- 
riods; enjoy highly the company of a fluent conversationalist; have copiousness of lan- 
guage and generally talk well, and are seldom troubled about words to express ideas and 
sentiments; under opposition can discourse or write in a free and ready manner. 

10. Apt to feel like the East Indians, who say at the commencement of nearly all of their 
books: "Blessed be the inventor of writing." Though not a remarkable genius in lan- 
guage, yet there is in such a mind a thankfulness that it does not live in barbarous times,. 

the French, British, Germans, Spauish and Arabs could neither read nor write; an 
expn usive and ready talker, and with the aid of a thorough classical education, would be 
lucid, racy, flowery, unhihored, exub, rant essayist. 

11. A genius in the coininumeation of ideas; often speak without much previous 
thought; the readv flow of words convinces those who hear that spoken language is large: 
Often Invent novel terms of expression; generally feel the necessity of saying something: 

d when called apon to apeak, and have nothing to say; very ready in speech and 
< llent language, and had a thorough classical education trained this 
,nl " I ll aioelled as an author, reporter, critic, reviewer, editor, amanuensis, or 

. 
u. ll. i\. i remarkable talent of expression, and an inborn ability to give easy and rapid 
■ to trnal to the Inspiration of the moment and speak tpontane- 
Ciceronian sty 1. , like Gainbetta, the greatest living 
extempore. Onesterneld says, " St; le is the dress of 
flowery and gorgeously aa a belle dressed for mar- 
will babl . prattle, palaver, prate, chatter, tattle, gabble and 
rful vi. Nihility ; with thorough culture and education, this mind would 
be i with that pithiness, loftiness, and graceful turn of expression; as far as 
ml to Homer, Virgil, Livy, Dacitus, Quiccardini, Swift, Prior, 
Fontaine, Ifoliere, Rousseau, Voltaire, Seyne, 
Bryant, i r Poe, each knew how to adapt his 
ppro] tted. 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. ' 31 

A. The first great requisite in the cultivation of language is a thorough classical educa- 
tion; then devote the attention to the study of rhetoric, etymology and English composi- 
tion; become familiar with some special subject and write upon it, re-write and revise, and 
continue to practice uutil what is now labor becomes a pleasant and easy pastime; next 
ponder upon the various styles of writing: notice corruptions of style, also the varieties 
of diction, such as cold, flowery, feeble, lucid, concise, incisive, diffuse, vague, figurative, 
powerful, nervous, pointed, lofty, poetic, severe, chaste, attic and crude; read and study 
the writings of Bacon, Shakspere, De Quiucey, Macaulay, Carlyle, Ruskin, Corneille, 
Racine, Clarendon, Montesquieu, Descartes, Gassendi, Arnaud, iBoileau, Leti, Scaliger, 
Oehlenschlager, Swedenborg, Oersted, Schlozer, C. O. Mailer, Leibnitz, Haeckel, Humboldt, 
Washington Irving, Draper, Emerson, Longfellow, and other works of taste, sentiment and 
science; especially study the genius of one's native tongue, and the harmony of language, 
which, when written, represents the author's capacity to think; combat vicious expressions 
used by iguorant people; trace out the faults of languages, for they, like people, are not 
without blemishes; follow the manner in which good authors write; keep and use the most 
complete dictionary it is possible to purchase, and associate and converse as much as possi- 
ble with scholarly persons who are fluent and superior conversationalists. 

B. Think more carefully about the manner and matter before speaking or writing; de- 
vote nearly the whole time to study; imitate Prince Talleyrand, a great wit of Napoleon's 
court, who spoke or wrote- in the most concise and terse phraseology; also the celebrated 
German Marshall, Moltke, who is silent in nine tongues; avoid toiling that which would 
harm other good people: learn to listen while others talk; in short, be more concise and 
laconic in speech or written composition; gesticulate less, and remember that nothing is 
more detestable than an intolerable chatterbox or illiterate boor. 

Curativeness. -Curative Power. 

# 

1. In a state of diseasedn- ss and fa bleness in body and mind; don't be such a brazen, 
egotistioal fraud as to attempt to cure others while in* this diseased condition; faint, dull, 
weak, wanting in magnetic power. 

2. Possessing little of the strength that heals; poorly adapted to perform the act of heal- 
nould at once place thyself under medical treatment. 

•">. Par too weak and sadly wanting in health to remove or even subdue disease in others, 
or to restore them to soundness; a delicate constitution and illy adapted to fulfill the duties 
of a physician* 

1 ( apable of giving good advice to those who are ill, but have little health and strength 
to impart to the sick: deficient in vigor and freshness. 

5. Desirous of helping others to shake off taint, infection, sickness or infirmity, yet un- 
able to become pre-eminent in the experimental art of healing. 

G. Are deeply interested in all that cures or ameliorates the conditions of sufferers and 
those who are unsound or in any wise affected with illness; occupying an intermediate po- 
sition between healthfulness and incurableness or sickness; would like to cure all who are 
sickly — even the cureless and gasping. 

7. Possessed of a moderate power to cure others, and tolerably adapted to the practice 
of healing, or to cure those affected with illness: possessing correctives for many disorders 
to which mankind ^re subject; here is a staunch, vigorous, hearty frame, with a surplus of 
strength to spare to those who are diseased, ailing, or the weak and the debilitated from 
overwork, without being diseased. 

8. Having a fresh and whole body, hale and healthful, it enables thee to repair, retouch 
and refit the unsound and flagging organizations of others, seemingly knowing as if by in- 
stinct what corrective, remedy and help to give for the renovation, recovery, restoration 
and instauration of those who are diseased, worn out, or suffering in body or mind. 

9. Happily suited to give maguetism to morbid and vitiated bodies, and return them to 
good health; are fit to cure and restore others to soundness; a natural nurse, apparently 
without study knowing what to do to ease the distressed and relieve suffering; the curative 
faculty is large in this organization, and when the skin is cut or broken it heals readily, and 
such people rarely remain sick long at a time; capable of self-restoration and to greatly aid 
others to return to their original state of healthfulness and vigor. 

10. Largely filled with pure magnetic force and are able to relieve pain and to remove 
many ailments by placing the hands on those who a r e afflicted, thereby giving them a large 
amount of life-geuerating magnetism; if sickly persons could associate with thee daily they 
would gather a good share of vigor and strength by it; there are few so suitable to render 
themselves serviceable and beneficial to the sick; friends think they can hardly do without 
thine assistance when they are sick and in trouble; for it does seem that few, if any, can 
suggest more readily the remedies to relieve one from sickness, distress, or social, financial, 
political, scientific, or religious trouble. 

11. Pew there be who possess such superexcellence as a nurse, and fewer still more ca- 
pable of giving unexceptionable advice on health, and rarely is one met better prepared by 
natural endowments to renovate, restore, cure and hoal the sick, weakly or indisposed; in 
this respect largely resembling members of the Sweet family, who formerly resided in the 



32 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

ttM of America, who without study could set disjointed or broken bones cor- 
re th : ■ Datura! physician. 

Prominently marked by nature for the re-establishment of health and soundness in 
repit, poorly, drooping, suffering <r bedridden; sufficiently sensible to 
thai regimen is superior to mediciue; too wise to attempt to institute an alli- 
! health and any kind of intemperance; should by all means be occupied in the 
i health; one to exercise the experimental art, medicine, with caution and un- 
■ss. 
A To aid, cherish, succor, support and promote the faculty that heals in man, animal 
table life, one should allow nature largely to have her own way; for when a piece of 
bark is broken from a tree, or one of its branches, the faculty for healing in that tree at 
once sets to work and heals the breach of injury; and that same faculty in mankind strives 
r any eat or injury that is done to any part of the body, and so we have recognized 
ilty and called it C urativeness, which signifies the faculty for the restoration or cure of 
:'.th ; nature gave this faculty to all life, yet, from ante-natal causes and inflLu- 
some persons receive it in a feeble degree, others in a medium, while a very few pos- 
sess it particularly strong; the latter, and those only, should be physicians; yet we find that 
in the medical schools physicians are ground out according to rule, as are lawyers and min- 
isters, and that is the cause of so many plying and disgracing those professions, who are 
illy adapted by nature for the occupation selected for them, perchance by ambitious parents, 
or by their own vanity, or from a love of doing good, and yet ignorant of the direction which 
nature has marked out for them to follow; and thus the world is filled with ignorant and 
incompetent doctors in law, medicine, theology, philosophy, and all the vocations of life. 
The word doctor literally signifies a teacher, aud how few are those who practice medicine 
and attempt to doctor who tell their patients anything or teach anybody, and how can 
they'.'' Can we extract milk from a stone ? Would the world be better without doctors, min- 
isters, lawyers, soldiers ? True and intelligent teachers push the world forward, enlighten 
and expand the intellect, promulgate knowledge, and thus benefit the world; but, alas! 
where is the doctor who teaches people how to cure themselves ? There was a period when 
Rome existed for more than live hundred years without a physician, lawyer or preacher; 
Horace gave the earliest forms of public prayers used by the ancients, and he was born 
nearly seven centuries after the founding of Home by Romulus. Prayers were not used 
among the Jews until their captivity at Babylon, before which they had not one single for- 
mula of worship. Rome, during the several centuries when she was without physicians, 
preachers, lawyers, and grist-mills, and ate boiled wheat, instead of bread, was far more 
healthy, more prosperous and more powerful than duiing any other period; and her lan- 

? became more perfect, literature flourished, and the arts were practiced with more per- 

eotaoc and grace than they have been since in any portion of the world. The first physi- 
ei in Koine had was Antonius Musa, the physician of Augustus Musa was a slave, a Greek 
l>y birth ; and alter curing Augustus of a dangerous illness by bathing was freed and made a 
Soman knight, from which physicians were respected. The Greeks had physicians several 
hundred yean before the Romans had them; Hippocrates, the father of medical science, 
. and whs born at Cos, 460 B. C. ; his family had followed the practice of medi- 
cine for 800 yens; he was a natural physician; he taught the necessity of closely observing 
ma of ili-e.ise, prescribing simple remedies only, aud insisted that the physician 
should follow nature. Learn from a practical physiognomist what nature has best fitted 
thee to follow, and when he says medicine or curing'people, then study in a medical college 
all the branches thoroughly, take good care of health, and be extremely careful to give only 
■impli and guard faithfully against killing anybody, and most of the patients will 

■ 11. 

B I " thwart, contravene, interclude, discourage, undermine, retard, avert, or turn aside 

lenoy to try to become u doctor; hist learn how many ignorant pretenders there are 

ble to oure anybody, or even aid nature in effecting a oure, yet are extracting 

I money from siok people, through their ignorant faith in mediciue; cultivate 

thai will prevent thee engaging in trying to cure the sick, and turn the mind 

channel of action, for which it is better adapted; teach people how to take 

th and pre* r?e it, instead of trying to cure them. It is a disgrace that medi- 

QOe more than 2250 years, and vet none, no not one pln/sl- 

i permanently cure syphilis; and yet Ricord, the great surgeon of 
fifths of all the French people had syphilis, and since our great civil 
: too OOminon in America; be a doctor, literally, by teaching people 
M rv- health. 

Solicitireputativeness. -Desire of Approval. 

Dg the opinions and feelings of others; thick-skinned and 

» l>i\e to,, much of the " don't care " disposition to praise anvbo.lv; 

-; abrupt, plun-spoken and unpopular. 

I his spirit nevei heeds the approval or condemnation of others; apt to say yes and no 

outs; ,,. Ithei oonrt favor nor renown; more inclined to denouu'ce and in- 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 33 

culpate strangers, than to vindicate or defend them; will not sacrifice ease for fame; occa- 
sionally inclined to censure others severely. 

3. Censure or admiration make little dffference with a mind so independent and proud; 
not likely to compete and strive for fame; slightly sensitive to praise; dislike those given to 
display; ambitious, and in this faculty like Robert Burns who said the great fault of his 
life was that he had formed no aim in life; satirical and sarcastic. 

4. Desirous of the good opinions of others, yet will not stoop to please for renown or ap- 
plause; a little stiff in manners and need to oil the joints ot the neck with politeness; some- 
what sensitive to criticism, blame, or censure; without flattery, like Hesiod , Homer, or De- 
mosthenes. 

5. Have some love of approval and regard for character, yet not showy or very oily in 
address; desire to be thought well of, but dislike to follow the fashions for the sake of pop- 
ularity. 

6. Not apt to flatter others or to condemn them unjustly; will strive to gain the good will 
and approval of friends; ambitious to avoid censure and keep up a good reputation; will not 
wheedle, coax, or flatter to shun reproach or evade correction. 

7. Fairly developed in this faculty, may have plenty of self-approval, but possess little 
desire for the applause of others; a well-merited and tasty compliment however is not objec- 
tionable; well satisfied to gain the favorable opinion and esteem of others. 

8. Wish to avoid the foul-tougued detractor or the fawning sycophant; such a mind 
measures its actions by the standard of others; pleased with kind attentions; will strive to 
be deserving and worthy of praise. 

9. Are rather fond of the good opinion, approval and compliments of others; have an 
inherent desire to do something and be somebody; set a great deal by character, honor and 
popularity; are affable, ambitious, and rather sensitive to blame or praise; dislike to be 
laughed at; enjoy admiration and a good name. 

10. Remarkably sensitive to slander or criticism ; smiles quickly soften this heart ; annoyed 
and mortified by a slight, yet perhaps too shrewd to discover the fact to others; rather 
courteous, laudatory and eulogistic; a delicately paid compliment encourages this mind to 
more vigorous exertion and greater and nobler acts. 

11. Dislike to be laughed at, and heartily enjoj admiration, yet thoroughly hate dispar- 
agement; in this respect considerably like Ovid, who praised Augustus; will compliment 
the great and rich, like Cicero flattering Julius Crcsar; are restless, insatiable, ever desiring 
the admiration of associates; English-like, value titles highly, such as highness, lordship, 
knight, duke, eir, esquire, F. R. S., F. G. S., and V. P. B. S*. E., etc. This understanding 

external marks of distinction, ribbands, stars, crosses, medals, garters, epaulets, golden 
fleece, livery, gown, peruke, wig, arms, etc.; love to move with the popular wave; instead of 
dependiug on judgment and conscience for approval, are looking without for it; rather 
easily flattered; attentive to etiquette and ceremony. 

12. lie who would eateh this heart should bait his hook with adulation; Curran-like, 
remarkably sensitive to expressed opinions of the people; delight in popularity and the 
good esteem of others; rather ceremonious and pay great attention to ancestry, and are 
likely to speak of them as haying been " high folks," or as connected with the aristocracy 
of Europe; entertain a high regard for character, reputation, honor, fashion, style, praise, 
and will approve all that is deemed worthy of commendation. 

A. Endeavor to please by politeness and urbanity of manners; enter into cultivated soci- 
ety, and strive to be as affable as those who are most so, and learn to practice all the little 
blandishments; guard against unpleasant words or actions; bear in mind that a large share 
of this faculty makes one genteel and beloved by the world; exert every power to become 
distinguished; form a high aim in life, and strive day and night to rightfully attain emi- 
nence and superiority. .» 

B. A.s long as there is a heart-feeling of right, go ahead and heed not the satires, slan- 
ders and laudation^ of the empty-mindod, soulless world; say, " I don't care," and try to 
feel it; dress plainly, cast away the ornaments, and depend solely on self-exertion; step up 
and do honorable duty fearless of fault-finders; be mindful that internal power, not exter- 
nal distinction, is the source of all real and lasting honor; keep off of the wave of popularity, 
for she generally drowns those who attempt to ride to glory on her fickle back; give no 
heed to flatterers, and put down in a memorandum that the wise care naught for vain- 
glorious titles, ostentatious decorations, inherited rank, or empty-pated, aristocratic 
vampires. 

Consecutiveness.-Consecution. 

1. A restless, uneasy, impatient soul; ever changing suddenly from one thing to another; 
completing nothing; preferring an occupation where interchange, exchange, deviation and 
alteration are requisite; a complete mental chameleou, a Proteus. 

2. Variety is the spice of this life; wheu speaking, digression marks all said; desultory, 
flving after every new notion; go by fits and starts, capricious, flickering, uncertain, 
changeling. 

3. Have a tendency to scintillation; lack consecutiveness; possess little ability to keep 
the mind on one subject sufficiently long to finish it; will jump to conclusions without being 

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34 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

able to tell the steps taken to reach them; interruption never incommodes this mind; with- 
.1 hshed rules of action or thought; a skipping and disconnected 

1. and sometimes quite desultory; pass rapidly from one subject to 
ithout in© : desire novelty; rather lack application; have intensity but 

, u , t ,;. ':■•, convulsive, unsettled. 

ore concentrative and less spasmodic; slightly deficient 
i n tl. bought and action; have too much divergence and too little 

, m , ; : iug and flowing like the ocean; mutable, versatile and ever 

; ;. ji b no great power of consecutive thought; neither remarkably desul- 

times forget to finish what is commenced in conversation as well 

y disturbed by interruption; tolerably patient, serial, consecutive. 

tly prolix, or excessively discursive; can continue at one thing, this or 

•Ugh to understand it somewhat thoroughly, if profoundly interested; 

can • iion to a person or idea, but are slightly inclined to vary and change to 

t topics. 

irly, though not excessively developed in love of succession; this mind seems to 
as reasons comparatively well; possess a sufficient amount of concatenation 
■cess in any laudable undertaking to which the mind is suitably 
bave :i quiet steadiness of action, yet can turn easily from the subject under con- 
sideration to other themes. 

'.'. ( an confine the attention quite well to the work in hand; able to chain one thought to 
anot. -cut to the mind of the listener an unbroken gradation or series of 

tiling; are delighted with lines and columns of troops or processions of persons follow- 
ing each other in uninterrupted connection; have the power, if pleased to use it, of gather- 
er and condensing material or ideas in consecutive order; dislike to listen to a 
t who wanders far from his subject. 
10. Arc well adapted to pursue a connected line of thought; inclined to finish everything 
commenced, in fact such persons dislike to leave a job partially finished; at times are 
Qt-minded; able to apply the whole mind closely a long period; are deemed long- 
winded by some acquaintances; will strive to bear and forbear; are steady-paced. 

11. Desire to complete every undertaking; this is the perfecting, thorough and finishing 
talent, possessed by so few Americans, yet very large in the one marked No. 11; are out and 
out, thorough-going; truly patient and prolix when particularly interested in a subject. 

12. Ever tracing out the minute relation one idea bears to another; somewhat tiresome 
and pointless in conversation; a few things occupy this attention life-long; extremely slow 
and patient; diligent and industrious; when once fairly interested will never cease until 

item is finished, or the best friend is wearied nearly to death. 

A. N.-vi r 1 ave a job until completed; have but one kind of work on hand at any time; 

ttled life, and devote several hours daily to solitary reflection upon some subject 
pecially interesting; avoid plays or entertainments where variety forms a chief 
ire; some to the point alter relating distant iucidents aud the details; read long, con- 
tinuous stories ami not newspaper paragraphs; listen patiently to speakers who are un- 
broken and consecutive in their line of arguments; associate with those whose thoroughness 
or devotedness to one occupation has produced good work and brought them well merited 
reuow ii. 

B. Engage in an occupation demanding constant change of mind and body; travel, move 
at an. I notice m w things; never repeat anything; buy aud read new books by authors 

who condense matter and treat new subjects; attend to generals aud omit details as far as 
practicable; converse with the young people who love variety; read newspaper paragraphs, 

and leave out all unimportant incidents; rush on among men in life's 

; subsistence ami fame. 

Discriminati von ess. Discriminating Capacity. 
i. With little more aeuteneM and judgment than an idiot, incapable of perceiving dost 
■imiMtud< or the most marked dissimilarities. 

• uding appropri iteness; would make slow progress in any sei- 
inable to compare one thing with another with any degn 
ataneous reeling to pi rceive nice analogies and ripe comparisons. 
bt distinctions; there is a dull edge to this nature; may 

i will Bignally fail to win- 

I the same relation to reason th it th< 

- in mai. rial for reason and thought, and is the pilot of 

tly critical; have some though no 
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to draw a sage parallel, or to institute a rational comparison, is not distasteful or beyond this 
capacity, yet are more keen in uuderstandingand appreciating than in making them; slightly 
discerning and somewhat ready in discovering what is top-heavy, over-balanced or dispro- 
portioued. 

5. Grand differences are noticed by this mind; highly pleased to listen to the speaker 
who makes nice, tine and subtle distinctions, and illustrates his subject with vivid meta- 
phors and comparisons, yet arc bitter adapted to comprehend than to draw inferences; able 

•e out plain analogies and arrive at safe conclusions. 

6. Are very well balanced in this capacity; generally value pretty correctly the bearing 
of one fact upon another: can w< i^h evidence in an intelligent manner; comprehend differ- 
ences and similarities between things side by side; unable to discern critically or cleverly; 
recognize characteristic qualities of mind; in a moderate degree inclined to criticise and an- 
alyse; have respectable ability to reason analytically. 

7. Pi 1 demonstrative and analytical perceptions; readily detect the discrepan- 
cies between facts and assumed positions; the words like and unlike are very expressive to 
this mind; rather quickly detect a wrong construction planed on a text or statement; gener- 
ally understand figures of speech, imagery, insinuations, parables, allusions and persona- 
tions. 

8. Can readily comprehend similarities and diversities; inclined to dissect every subject 
in the mind, and trace ideas from particulars to generals; keenly perceive the faults and de- 
ficiencies as well as the perfections of materials or theories: apt to notice the correlation of 
thought and the proper time and suitable place for any Special class of actions. 

'•'. Speedily appreciate fine analysis, and have a tendency for metaphor; can tell when 
one thing is made like another; keenly detecting likeness, and rather expert in showing dis- 
tinction or differences between things distinguishable: have considerable power of induc- 
tion; critical ami analytical in argument, and arrive at the exact comprehension of a subject 
by comparative estimates; inclined I a whole into its component parts, then judge 

each part by itself, before arriviuu at a satisfactory oonclasion. 

It). Recognize resemblances or differences almost instantly; analyse skillfully and criti- 
cise closely; can reason ably in debate, and make everything plain to a listener through the 
examination and illustration of each separate point in the whole argument; the rules of 
ratio and proportion in arithmetic come very natural to such minds if they are educated; 
are quick, sharp and astute mentally, and with pity for the dolt and the simpleton. 

11. Excelled by very few in detecting likeness or difference; especially happy in selecting 
comparisons; can make nice distinctions while forming correct conclusions; a forcible anal- 
ogical iniud that is well qualified to convince others of its solidity and compass of thought 
by correct comparisons ami profound reasoning founded on facts; a good eye to tell 
which ot several objects is largest and which smallest; an able classifier of natural curi- 
osities or such things as interest this peculiar mind; readily detect the liar by comparing 
his several statements with each other and the known facts; demonstrative and convincing 
in induction and broad awake and silting when forming an inference or conclusion. 

19. Are a superior genius in analytical research, and in the appreciation of titanic and 
minute variations; inductive or Baconian in method of inquiry when forming ideas; have 
most remarkable powers of diagnosis; great judgment of the fitness and relevancy of 
things; with acute penetration, valid reason and sound judgment. 

A. Study chemistry, botany, geology, physiognomy and polite literature; take part in 

scientific investigations; place two books or apples side by side, and slowly give an oral 

descriptiou of the points of difference, and then describe wherein they resemble each 

other; read Kant's "Critique of Pure Reason;" also peruse thoughtfully Hegel's "Encyklo- 

Jer Philosopltisehtn H ften," and Comte's "6'ours de Phiiosophie positive." 

13. Never speak of a fault, if you see one in a friend; take no note of differences; ex- 
press the mind generally and never heed sharp precision. 

Structurodexterity.- Mechanical Talent. 

1. A complete mechanical zero; wanting adequate powers to shape^ 
or reorganize matter. 

2. May be able to tear to pieces or lay waste the ingenious produc- 
tions of others, but are wholly incapable of giving shape or fashion tOj 
material; almost a constructive nonentity. 

3. Deficient in originality and expertness, and capable only of the Mechanical Foot, 
roughest workmanship; awkward and unskillful in the use of tools; somewhat interested 
in fine workmanship; not apt to become an inventor. 

4. Capable of building in an unfinished manner; not likely to excel in mechanical in- 
dustries; feeble ability to comprehend a machine or the plan of buildings; can make 
nothing unless it has been made before; barren in plans; might with practice learn 
a trade. 

•j. Are far better in planning than executing; fail to comprehend complicated machinery; 
to mould, hammer, hew, carve, stamp, or fashion, is not a strong point in this character; 
could learn a trade with practice, but the work when complete would be more scabrous 
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3G HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

iir constructive talent, and sufficient ingenuity to work up the raw material; 
. illy with a little showing and directing; if forced to it, could rely upon the cunning 
n the hands and arms to earn a living; are pleased to see the manufacturing 
untry flourish; have good taste regarding fine, light and plain work; sonie- 
t uii.l handy though not inventive. 
7. Find BOme pleasure in viewing machinery while it is in operation; fairly good in con- 
triv.ii.r-. and may work smart and nimbly with tools if practiced, yet are not remarkable 
i ising whys "and means to secure an end; should this mind turn its contrivance to in- 
tellectual planning, it would readily become proficient in literary and scientific labor. 

v Manifest Borne dexterity in the use of tools, though more inclined to operate in special 

of labor than to attempt to grasp many; this mind experiences a determinate charm in 

witnessing the various processes of working raw materials into a form suitable for use; more 

: to mental than physical construction; could soon learn to work machinery ; yet are 

not an Edison in mechanical conception or mental fertility. 

'. Would evince considerable ingenuity and skill if engaged in a mechanical trade; have 
a keen sympathy with the carpenter, the mill-wright, the stonemason, the machinist, the 
blacksmith, wagon and cabinet makers, and the work they accomplish; probably this mind 
is sufficiently intelligent to understand that nearly all progress that favors wealth, the ad- 
vancement of scientific thought, real knowledge, and the unfoldment of the natural re- 
BOnroet of a country depend mostly on invention and mechanical skill, hence the import- 
ance this mind attaches to constructive operations. 

li». Instinctively able to determine the effects produced by forces on a body; can do 
thiugs handily, and plan and originate in an able and profitable manner; are expert in the 
use of tools when once practiced; could plan or build a house; able to tinker, mend, and 
manufacture, but perhaps may devote the entire attention to construction of sentences or 
contriving in mercantile business; are skillful and dextrous in the use of the hands; can 
fashion, frame or form in a workmanlike manner, if the attention is turned into the working 
department. 

1 1 As a practical mechanic, would be expert by devoting attention in that direction; are 
gifted in the arrangement of words in a sentence; can compile, or put together the parts of 
a thing, compose, make, and are skilled in mechanics, intuitively understanding the effects 
ices acting on a body; pleased to work in the delicate materials and are particularly 
adroit, sagacious, able and sharp in giving form and finish to material; are rather orna- 
mental and subtle in work, yet are able to lick into shape expeditiously whatever engages 
the hands; a genius in management; inventive, nimble, handy, and masterly in symmetri- 
cal and plasmatic production. 

12. k'.riraonlhuirily gifted in the department of skilled industry wherever engaged; a 
constructive genius of the first class; adapted to practice invention; able to astonish the 
world afl did Mark Scaliot, who exhibited before Queen Elizabeth a lock consisting of eleven 
pieces of iron, steel and brass, with a key that altogether weighed one grain; he made a 
Bold chain composed of forty-three links which he fastened to the lock, and then to a flea 
that drew them all with ease; the flea and its load weighed one grain and a half. Conradus 
l>.i-ipodius invented and made the most wonderful clock in existence, and although made 
in r>71 it keeps excellent time in the Cathedral in Strasbourg, and is worth the journey 
there for this mind to see it, for minds of this stamp alone can appreciate its complex 
mech a ni s m ; are remarkable in mechanical dexterity, and may be compared to Myrmecides, 
ver. who made an ivory chariot with four harnessed horses so small that a common fly 
could hid. them all under her wings; or to the genius of Praxiteler, the famous Italian 
: Drabble, who made an organ that warm sunlight caused to make fine music, 
without any ..ther aid; closely resembling the ingenuity of Proclus who constructed burn- 
ln K wonderfully efficacious that he set fire to and destroyed the Mysian and Thra- 

A. \ tail machine shops and manufactories; mend what is broken; plan, contrive and 
deviee new method* of accomplishing the desirable, strive to perform as others do mechani- 
cally; construct sentences; produce theories new and truthful, regardless of public appro- 
ir result* ; try to produce, shape, build, trim, out, frame, or make something, how- 
le, distorted and askew the result; associate with ingenious mechanics, and learn 
• the clasH of artisans who build houses; make books or papers, and each particle 
wear; it is the mechanic who constructs all the artificial necessities, 
and luxuries of life, builds each railroad and equips it, constructs telegraphs, ships, 
musical instruments, and nearly everything that is not produced bv 
i- meohaniam that caused Chicago to rise." Pheuix-like, from her ashes, Ban 
to ahghl and spread her quivering wings bv the Golden Gate; mechanism trans- 
L biladelphia and New York from little hamlets to vast cities in a century; 
y, Har in mi. id thai all wealth is drawn from labor, and the amount of wealth de- 
ll largely on the skill with which the labor has been performed: and in coming ages in tel- 

make laws, control and govern the nations; DecaUfi insists of 

tee, namely, laborers, manufacturers, merchants and capitalists.' and . 
tnumbor th- other three collectively, so when they become sufficiently educated 

ilik" nt th.v will ieis« the reins of government and guide the ship of State honestly 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 37 

and fairly, and make labor the only road to nobility and honor; also that mechanical labor 
tends to destroy superstition and idolatry, because it teaches men to depend upon their 
hands and mental contrivance, instead of on any unknown or imaginary power. 

B. Guide this capacity rightly and sensibly by working out the useful only, and never 
waste time, as thousands have done, by trying to invent perpetual motion. 

Ordiniphysicality. -Physical Arrangement. 

1. Thoughts in this mind resemble foam on a whirlpool, or the jumbled colors in a 
kaleidoscope; as irregular and unsorted in personal and physical affairs as an Esquimaux, 
Laplander or South-sea islander. 

2. Delighted with helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy and confusions; ever unhinging or 
putting out of joint something; misplace and mislay articles and cannot find what is de- 
sired; have no more idea than a rhinoceros of v>hat properly comes next or of consecutive 
order. 

3. Pleased with jargon, anarchy, chaos, and deranged thoughts and material appear- 
ance; a confused mind slightly given to scrambling and hurrying about, with collar awry, 
as if anxious to find something, and always have lost several necessary articles. 

4. Regard and appreciate system and order more than keep it; irregular in walk and 
bodily motions; go by tits and starts; jumble things about in the house — litter tbe floor, 
tangle the thread or cord, and scatter things about iu a most disorderly manner. 

5. If well trained will evince fair discipline, otherwise are rather unmethodical, will 
keep order if business compels, but not greatly given to uniformity of conduct, or to form 
rules of action by which to guide life; like to see order better than to keep it; frequently 
permit confusion. 

6. Find delight in seeing discipline and proper gradation; prefer to have things arranged 
that they may be convenient, yet are not particular about routine, custom, or classification; 
have vastly more taste than arrangement; in some things may evince considerable order, 
but being little interested in it, and deeming it less important than other things, become 
lax and indifferent about distribution. 

7. Not a master in arrangement, yet able to admire what is arranged according to some 
common law or end: at times ideas are thoroughly systematized in this mind and regularly 
distributed, at others they troop unsorted along like* cattle in pasture; enjoy gradation and 
classification and will take some pains to arrange and parcel out the articles of social com- 
fort. 

8. Have more mental than material regularity; evince more power of analysis, allot- 
ment and disposal of things than inclination to muster, group or formulate systems; better 
adapted to conform to rules than to frame them; love order and will take some pains to sys- 
U unitize and arrange general objects. 

'.'. Take considerable pleasure in subordination, routine, course and method; are a trifle 
formal, stiff and prim; at times given to be precise, " old maidish," punctilious, and at 
other periods have an easy, familiar, unsettled appearance and manner; usually assign each 
article or idea to its appropriate place. 

10. Delight in seeing everything en m/fc, clearly and methodically arranged; at home 
only where order, symmetry, and law abound; hate slovenliness and confusion, being incom- 
moded and pained by them: with proper early training and correct habits will evince great 
system and keep things in their phices; disposed to work by rule, and will make regulations 
rather than live in physical anarchy or mental confusion; can arrange and methodize 
thoughts better than material objects. 

11. Are highly uniform in ideas and methodical with things; capable of arranging in an 
orderly manner an assemblage of bodies, so as to form a connected whole; will act, do and 
thiuk according to rule: able to reduce knowledge to a complete system; can fully appre- 
ciate and comprehend order in general, and that consecutive, collective, distributive, or 
Older as regards categories; prefer to have a formula, law or form for all acts, either mental 
or physical; cannot bear confusion in an assemblage, convention, or meeting; expert in clas- 
sifying objects of natural history, and in scientific division of subjects; can always tell what 
properly should come before, and the consequent of an idea, or the precedence and sequence 
of correct arrangement; have a place for everything, and see that it is put there. 

12. Are exceedingly clear and untangled in thought, and will work earnestly to keep each 
thing in its proper place; greatly annoyed and fretted by litter, farago, mess, confusion, dis- 
turbance, entanglement, or irregularity of personal affairs; are remarkably particular, pre- 
cise, methodical, systematic, well regulated and uniform whether in labor, recreation or in 
social life; extremely fastidious and given to be immoderate in regular arrangement. 

A. Strive to maintain an unruffled spirit at all seasons, and keep an even tenor of mind; 
when describing what has been seen, commence with what was first noticed, and continue 
with objects in the order they were seen ; in writing always place foremost the name of the 
man born first, and follow throughout the list the same regard to birth and consecutive or- 
der; rise at a certain hour each morning and retire to rest invariably at a specified time; ap- 
point an hour for each meal, and never vary a minute, if possible to eat at the fixed mo- 
ment; step with measured pace and even rapidity; pendulate the arms with regularity; avoid 



38 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

the hurley barley of crowded marts, and the hodge-podge, lumber, tumult, embroilment, 
ible of the business world. 

: tte with persons who give themselves a natural familiar way, and strive to be 
as easy, childlike and free as they; over-precision and cold formality have consigned many 
. .1 spinsterhood, and numerous honorable men to single misery for life; then 
re6 ,, to become more nondescript, easy, natural, unrestrained, and less 

I i please and leas fastidious about arrangement; let the books lie topsy-turvy on 
the t ibl( : throw down the papers and tumble them overuntil the desired one is found; over- 
turn the chairs and Let them remain upset; often change the entire arrangement of the house, 
and d< v« i mind it the pictures hang higher or lower than before; invite Mother Hurdy-gurdy 
to 1;\ louse, and imitate her even if it is distasteful; throw down each article in the 

place until the excessive tendency to regular arrangement abates: impress 
upon the memory that perverted order overworks one's-self and annoys and torments the 
most familiar and dearest friends;' hence repress it with natural and honorable actions. 

Angularitiveness.— Perception of Angles and Lines. 

1. Nearly as round in form, character and habits as an orange or pomegranate. 

2. Having a trame more rounded and curved than angular, plane surfaces, angles and 
orystalized material give thee no comfort, but rather offend the eye. 

- inclination of two straight lines which meet together is less pleasing to thee than 
objects where simple or complex circularity abounds in the general form, owing to the an- 
nular or round form of thy entire bodily structure. 

he orbicular and rotund slightly predominate in this organization, over the straight, 
and angular, thence the character is well rounded, mild, plastic, social, joyous and delighted 
tistic works and nature's organisms, more than the heavy mechanical works. 
■ ing almost free from the rectilineal and direct in the anatomical frame, from that 
cause, direct lines, straight edges, crystalizations, plane surfaces, unswerving smoothness, 
horizontality, and perpendicularity, are of little moment to this mind, for as much as thou 
thinkest more of the object than its shape. 

6. Happily balanced in this faculty; on that account are neither prepossessed in favor of 
angularity and straightness nor circularity, rotundity and convexity. 

; i;ough not thoroughly skilled in the perception of straight lines, triangles and 
squares, or the jagged, serrated, forked, zigzag, furcated, wedge shaped, fusiform, poly- 
i, geniculated and the angular, yet are pleased with bodies wherein those conditions of 
special form abound. 

8, Having a ready comprehension of all manner of angles, points, lines, planes, notches, 
d-nti< ulatinns, folds, plaits, joints, and the aculeated, ensiform, spinous, cusped, digitated, 
aharp-edg< d, derivable from being built more on the angular and square plan than on the 
: or round form. 

BOul delighting in corners, straight lines, sharp points, cragged rocks, pectinated 
rugose mountains, angular embattlements, trisulcated exteriors, scabrous emi- 
DJ D( • ravines, for the reason that those qualities predominate in the make up of 

this frame; betimes are quite angular, excitable and crinkled in disposition; occasionally 
bound . .IT at anauglo into new and extremely radical notions; it is difficult for friends to tell 
tD-. lav how this mind will act on the to-morrow. 

in. Ueplete with angularity, and are naturally talented in judging of those special 

forms wherein two or more straight lines meet together, but are not in the same straight 

line: delight iu seeing wagon roads and railroads straight, as well as fences, trees, water ditch- 

ingelse which utility will permit; can draw a direct line with very little practice, 

but would find much more difficulty in marking out a circle; can remember the figure four 

rthan five or three, imputable to the fact that it consists more of straight lines and 

adapted for architecture, plain, straight lines, mechanism or engineering 

f portraiture, botanical sketching, watch or shoe making; apt in judging 

!>d moving on them when walking; have a direct aim in life and kuow what 

I afraid Others will know it; a mind, direct, plain and original in its action. 

1 '• N "' ;' 1Nl " to pander to tin- public tastes or their notions; think for self and have pe- 

OUlJ i uk Id views of life and things in general; it is a difficult matter to train 

lUCh mindl to ■OUlpturing, oarying, portrait painting, engraving where curved hues are nec- 



rancy work, highly adapted to judge of angles, right lines, inflexibilitv 

il form of pointedness; given to keep in a middle course when walking; 

d surfaces and objects thai are straight and in an upright position/ 

'il. lull of outright originality and extreme points of character; 

fond of a wall, cliff, precipice or anything that presents a plane surface and 

in a vertical position, as well as a terrace esplanade, table land or any 

ie t\ to become very popular with everyday associates, 

i itrianisra on direct lines; square the circles and hew the round bodies 

lead books on house building and civil engineering; study 

il.N conic sections; have the piano and Other furniture iu the house with 

>nd with as many angles as possible; practice cutting a piece of paper 

• lp il,1 ' i li d and |4 last into triangular shape; whittle a piece of 




HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 30 

wood into an exact cube; avoid everything that is round or curved; keep a carpenter's square 
and clap it on to everthing ma le, to see if each object is duly square; omit all the little 
blandishments and assert boldly every innate opinion on all public topics, and stick to them 
and defend them as firmly and fiercely as Scipio (Atricanus) did his father, in the battle of 
Tioinna. 

B. To repress an angular disposition one should study all of nature's productions and 
learn that each organic thing is round m one direction at least; take good care of health eat 
heartily of plain food aivl take plenty of sleep, and the body will rlosh up, and rounding out 
in its proportions, will abolish the angles; and as soon as this is accomplished, the marked ex- 
citability and angolarness of character will hive disappeared. 

Beneflcentness.— Beneficence. 

1. Are as cruel as either Brutus, Nero, Caligula, 
Domitian, Henry VIII., Cromwell, Henry II , king 
of England, Legrand, Olonois, Gloria or Roc, the 
la-t four were iron-hearted pirates, likely to lead a 

t of vice and crime; a bloodthirsty wretch; dis- 
t to inflict pain; phased at Buffering; void of 
pity; a merciless sava 

2. Malice, trncnlence and spite have taken deep 
root in this feeble mind; now and then disposed to 
cause pain by cruel acts; half of the time living in 
a state of barbarism; uncultivated, pitiless and un- 
Bympathising; take little interest in the well-being 
of man or animal. 

3. Have compassion and leniency in a limited Thorough-bred Horse -Large Benevolence. 

decree; take some delight in harrassing and disobliging Friends and acquaintances; rather 
cold-hearted and selfish; manifest feeble sympathy for fellow-beings in distress; not well 
developed in beneficence ; when the contribution box passes are likely to put a hand in 
the pocket, and allow it there to remain. 

4. Are benign when well treated, but if abused, ill-nature, ferrity and malignity are 
manifested; the special sympathetic affections are only moderately developed in this nature: 
not a very fluent and inexhaustible mourner for others' woes, when they fail to find life in 
a near friend; are a little malicious, but far more benignant; not very liberal in dona- 
tions; have a good share of passive kindness, yet not great, active beneficence. 

5. Beneficent feelings occasionally thrill this being, unless the wormwood of vexation 
nettles the feelings, and then harshness and ill-will reign over thee for a time; have mod- 
erate anxiety to relieve Bufferings; generally evince considerable fellow-feeling; will bestow 
money or other assistance when certain it is needed and will be appreciated; will aid those 
who help themselves, yet will do little for those who will not work; have done many a good 
turn without asking or expecting remuneration. 

6. Have a fond desire to be of use and do good; are fairly and evenly developed in the 
diffusive and retrospective sympathetic affections (the hist causes acts of sterling kindness, 
the latter renders one forgiving and grateful); will lament with those who weep, pity those 
of long suffering, and feel good intentions towards everybody, except when greatly wrought 
up by insult, v.rong or excitement; will put forth efforts in behalf of others and afford con- 
solation to the distressed. 

7. Are well meaning and humane; love to see others happy, and often exculpate and 
make allowance for their failings; will sometimes sacrifice self-convenience for the well be- 
ing or happiness of others; if harassed by disagreeable people or unpleasant circumstances 
too long, will evince considerable rancor, spitetuluess and vengeance; think that none are 
more kind than self; not remarkably profuse in gifts, yet are kindly disposed and willing 
to accommodate, especially if living near those oblL 

8. Are spleenless and gracious, and arouse the kindly spirit in others; a feeling of ob- 
ligation and thankfulness creeps over thy nature as light over the earth at morning, until 
thine whole being glows brightly with benignity, affection and pity; a merciful sympathy, 
Titilitarian, being sometimes quite compassionate and tender, yet not so perpetually; do 
much for friends and rather easily affected at the sight of distress in any living thing; often 
returning sympathy and assistance for received pettish annoyances. 

9. Are ever ready to exonerate those that err unintentionally; if governor or president 
thou wouldst be apt to remit, reprieve and absolve too many for the public welfare; quite 
inclined to conciliate, placate and reconcile difficulties and differences as far as reasonable; 
likely to ask for mercy for those who misdemean or transgress, yet are contrtte and re- 
pentant; have strong sympathy for all living things; are obligiug, tender-hearted and hu- 
mane towards others; a philanthropic, public spirited peace-maker, and feel an interest in 
everything that can suffer or enjoy; fraught with good feeling, and vicious only when unrea- 
sonably provoked. 

10. Are tender-hearted and disposed to sympathize with those in trouble; will often 
wonder why such vast sums of money are annually expended to destroy men in war, and so 
little to preserve them in the way of charity-schools, hospitals, county houses, infirmaries, 



40 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

pest-houses and lazarettos; one to fully appreciate such good and beneficent people as Ger- 

u .mi Brice, Olivet Patru, 1'omponne, If. Chsinoussett, Baroness Coutts and Peter Cooper; 

'.'•. *i charitable as the Turks who have hospitals for beasts; given to aid and render a 

ice and accommodate like an Arab, who will give a 6tranger his best bed, divide his last 

,11 with him without expecting pay for it; a6 far as able, will dispense clothing, 

medicine, and assist in a meritorious manner those who are needy or suffering, re- 

r or political or religious belief; manifest ill-will and malignity only when 

aroused and wronged by insupportable outrage, importunate affront or dolorous maltreat- 

thifl is B Bonl to delight in rich composure, bounty and humanity. 

11. True fellow-feeling tans within this breast the warm fire of charity and philanthropy; 

I and exceedingly kind, except when stung by provocation; if able will ex- 
hibit constant liberality, without b< ins supplicated for alms; are often desirous of founding 
: itable estal lishments for the physical, intellectual, moral, and social improvement and 
•being of mankind: desire that tbis and other governments sustain a national secretary 
of health? support ( d with a salary, in the same manner as a secretary of war; are given to 
■ rsal charity, unless circumstances restrain the tendency; would deem a hospital or a 
charity-school a grand monument of beneficence. 

12. Good-will is ever prompting thee to aid whoever may seem to be in need; it is in this 
form that tender benignity, captivating philanthropy, enchanting forbearance, affectionate 

lolenoe, tutelary, complacence, the pleasures of gratitude and the luxuries of forgiveness, 
with the must exquisite art; a heart to feel and express sincere kindliness and dis- 
I Bympathy for those in want and affliction; desirous to plant flowers and fruits by 
the wayside oi lite to please and nourish the lonely and weary traveler; ever ready to sacri- 
fice selfish interests for the benefit of others; are supremely happy in seeing others enjoy 
wholesome pleasures; extremely generous, liberal, philanthropic, beneficent, kind and char- 
itable; have a remarkably long, narrow face beaming with consoling pity and gracious be- 
nevolence. 

A Charity and benevolence seems to be and has been a powerful incentive to action 
>ng all races of people, from the earliest ages to the present time. Cicero often men- 
us onivi rsal charity, " CharUas humani generis;" the poor of ancient Eome were supplied 
liberally with cum free of expense, and thus the Romans knew no necessity; the poorest 
Bomans were supported by the republic; the Lucanians had a law among them that no 
a. .in shall refuse to entertain a stranger who asks, after sun-set, the privilege of entertain- 
t and lodging; for an infringement of this law his house was to be demolished and 
he stigmatized as a miser; Cyrus' kindness and liberality made him beloved by his soldiers; 
Boipio secured himself from treacherous conspiracies by generosity; the ancient Greeks 
bad charitable institutions, named XenodnJcia, used especially for strangers; Xoscomeia 
their hospitals for sick; and Ptohia were similar to our county houses for the poor; 
and to-day there is not a city of any size in Lurope or America without several hospitals, 
proving that mankind are naturally well-meaning, in sympathy with the distressed, and 
to do guod to others; and it is only to those who unfortunately are deficient in 
itable fellow-feeling that these directions for the improvement of benevolence are very 
!• Bpeotfully and sympathetically addressed: — Relieve distress in animal or person whenever 
ana wherever it is possible; allow no opportunity to pass without speaking kind words to 
the afflicted and distressed; never speak harshly of any one, especially of those who err, 
foi they need good honest human sympathy more than others; above all, never join in 
lp, because it always leads to the depreciation of others, and the saying of unkind 
false word- of them; i i stamp upon the memory that a judicious silence is better than 
tiuth ■pokes without charity; share with friends every dainty; be obliging and amiable on 
ions; tear off the case of malevolence that encrusts the heart; avoid people who 
Ibil ill-nature, selfishness, ingratitude, or revenge, as well as those who often manifest 
ny ami Humanity, and never harbor malice; give freely and liberally all that the pocket 
I nal.lv afford* Let the following talc root and ever live within the memory.-— 
■ wealthy who employ their means in doing good, because liberality procures 
certain friends and faithful dependents, secures them sound advice in prosperity, and 
mind- to lupport ami hands to defend them in adversity; and lastly, that the deeds of the 
trulj good live alter them, and are the grandest monuments ever erected in honor of man. 
B, Ls this faculty is generally tOO small, we shall say little regarding its repressment: 
i who nave it abnormally Luge, and are liable to squander a dowry in ill- 
aould keep discriminative watoh over their good nature lest they peoome 
ii- adviM with economical friends, and guide each act of charity 
by their oounsi 

Decisiveness. Decision of Character. 
LAi ble and unstable as a weather-cock, ever ebbing and flowing like the sea; 

tper; unsettled, irresolute ami unreliable; ever forming resolutions 

'loud, shadow or dieam. 
'-'• I; pliable, ductile and yielding as warm wax: when excited 

•' I I I ; as a boy of twelve years when for the iirst time out with 

i hunt; a Worth 1< ss, giddy, volatile, freakish, useless whimsicality. 




HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 41 

3. Flitting about in opinions like a butterfly; feeling 
to be a creature of circumstances; one of the kind that 
neither know whut they are, or what they should be, 
and shift the scenes as their fears or interests drive them ; 
have no confidence in self, because nearly alway s fluc- 
tuating in uncertainties, especially if the winds of ad- 
versity blow hard upon them. 

4. Often form very good resolutions and nearly as 
quickly break them: have little ballast to thy ship, and 
need more constancy; such minds are apt to live shift- 
less changing lives: deficient in determination to con- 
quer; have feebleness of purpose and occasionally 
yield, when judgment dictates to be steadfast. 

6 Will form courageous decisions yet fail to carry 
out many of life's plans; will give op and yield under 

difficulties or strong opposition; are somewhat deficient Andrew Jackaon, great decision of chatae- 
in the magnetic will-power; readily come to a deter- tar; and extremely honest. 

mination but can easily yield when thinking it best, or deeming it expedient. 

6. Being neither possessed of blind obstinacy nor pngnaoioas vacillation, but constancy 
of soul gives a decided resolution, and the exercise of mental courage, that keeps one in due 

I twixt the extremes of levity and obstinacy, which render thee tit to be a friend, and a 
terror when an enemy. 

7. The quality of being decided gives this mind determination, settlement, clearness, un- 
mistakable resolution; can bring the mind to end or to Bottle any suspense or doubt that 
may play freakish phantasms in the fancj ; some times are quite resolute, and steadfast, but 
will yield and pliantly acquiesce to the wishes of others, when impelled by judgment or 
duty; usually evince considerable constancy and inflexibility of character. 

B. Here abounds a good degree of self-control; a mind inclined to take a stand and adhere 
to its ground, and maintain a firm front, as long as reason sancti os; can be mon easily 
coaxed than driven from a fixed purpose. 

9. Well sustained by mental oourage and firmness of soul; are resolute and decided, and 
possess unflinching tenacity of purpose; when duty calls and the reason sanctions areas 
unswerving and immovable as LyourgUfl of old: greatly strenuous, peremptory, persevering 
and bent upon conquering; an irreversible, unshaken and irrevocable soul, and will not re- 
cant, abjure or relinquish an opinion until fully convinced of self-error. 

10. One not to be moved by trifles; unhesitating, undiverted and staunch while fully 
persuaded that the position occupied is tenable and reasonable; have complete mastery over 
self; carry out plans through many difficulties and danger-: an inflexible will that sticks to 
a purpose in a quiet, decided manner; possessed of great will power, perseverance, and con- 
stancy of intentions. 

11. Are usually as staunch as a rock, aud sometimes quite set in opiuions and ways; as 
an author thou wouldst write with the excellent firmness of Tacitus, and the same firm 
style manifested in the writings by La Bruyere; some writers have a hard or harsh style 
which is uucommendable; every act of thy life bears the stamp of steadiness, bottom, self- 
reliance, and doggednees; never yield a decision unless compelled by argument, by circum- 
stances, by reason, or through human sympathy; slow to become interested and started, and! 
hard to stop when once fully under way; are very definitive, resolved and stable. 

12. Extremely determined and resolute, and overflowing with the disposition which ad- 
heres severely to what is taken in hand, given to persist in anything and to pursue any ob- 
ject steadily; may be coaxed, but driven never; are lavishly provided with fortitude, heart, 
resolvedness, and inclined to oppose whatever disagrees with self-opinions; under great 
excitement become obdurate, previcacious, unpersuadable and contumacious; have the for- 
titude of Mutius of old, who held his hand in the flames until it was burned from his arm 
in presence of Etrurian Prossenna, to show the king what Romans could endure for their 
homes; Thomas Cramner held his hand in the flames until it dropped off; Porcia had no 
more fortitude than this soul, and yet she killed herself swallowing live coals of fire; a pro- 
totype of this mind was Hypbrides, a Greek orator and disciple of Plato, who cut out his 
own tongue, that it should not reveal his country's secrets when he was a prisoner. 

A. Determine as a matter of judgment, that he who lacks in firmness is like a ship with- 
out a rudder cast about by every storm, and that this faculty guides, holds and controls in 
the proportionate ratio to its power, and that for one thou wilt no longer be a chip on the 
river of life, cast harlequin-like, as fickle as a butterfly, into quicksands or port, as the tides 
ot fluctuation may chance; resolve and re-resolve to become more stable until time shall 
transform resolves into resolution; yield to no circumstances if it is possible by persistent 
striving to avoid it, and ultimately conquer; start more slowly and persevere in one direc- 
tion until fitful action grows into steadfast tenacity and indomitable inflexibility; study the 
lives of Antoninus, C. Alevius, Q. Scaevola, L. Sylla, and imitate their noble resolution and 
perseverance; with a reasonable determination strive to have a decided opinion on all sub- 
jects, and be just and firm everywhere. 



[> HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

B When this faculty is so active and strong as to render one as obstinate as a don- 

ihould by all means be curbed, which can be done by striving at all times to 

.i wishes of others; cultivate more pliancy and mutability of disposition, and 

without change tin re can be no improvement and progress; learn that 

makes one very popular; then try to imitate the great, hum- 

1 rajanus, who never displeased any man by refusing his request; 

nor, and cultivate benevolence, which says Yes, and restrain obsti- 

. .Is the No ; cultivate by practice the great and attractive civilities of courtesy 

humility. 

Observativeness.— Observation and Attentiveness. 

1. Things are seen by this eye, but not observed; inconsideration, disregard, and non- 
obaer ■'•ell as revery and brown study mark this mind; hence, are dull, flat, vapid, 
and have an uninformed understanding. 

2. Impatient of attention, with eyes rolling about, without directing the attention by an 
I of the will to objects of contemplation, and from this reason make no effectual intel- 

1< otual progress in knowledge 

3. Inc tpacitated to control and direct the faculty of observation; spasmodic inattention, 
because anableto converge the thoughts upon one subject and its conditions long enough to 

imp it on the memory sufficiently to be retained, and afterwards become food for reflec- 
tion; take little interest in anything;' a dreamy, dizzy, napping character. 

4. Somewhat given to take notice and remark of various subjects for a brief period; the 
attention, however, soon wanders into careless, random emotions and confused conceptions; 
see many things, yet observe few attentively and closely; this mind has compass yet little 
definite and thorough knowledge; can observe what others point out, but makes few, if any, 

inal discoveries with the eyes. 

not very exact and particular in noticing things, often overlooking the strong 
points and see objects in a wrong light; neither given to close scrutiny nor minute scan- 
ning of d( tails, yet observe many things in general; considerably curious and inquisitive; 
too little attention to be an accurate observer; attention and observation are so feeble 
That forming a reasonable inference or logical course of argument is a task absolutely im- 
possible. 

B. lake delight in traveling to see the world and make general observations, yet have too 
much rlightiness of attention to become a deep and profound scholar, incapable of that in- 
tense degree of attention which is necessary to remember all the details; not sufficiently 
thorough in noticing to gain complete and indellible impressions from external objects ; and 
as the result of this, often confound the fancies of the interior mind with the surrounding 
realities; possess considerable curiosity to see and learn what is interesting, yet are 
pass many minor things unnoticed. 

pretty closely when some one else calls attention to the object; rarely no- 
tice details sufficiently to remember them all correctly; not an independent observer, yet 
lean amount from seeing, and take considerable pleasure in observing persons and 

inquiring into their antecedents and peculiarities; glance at and cursorily examine every- 
thing; .i tolerably fair observer; will turnover the leaves of a book, and dip into it quite 
deeply when once completely interested in the subject on which it treats. 

M B vigorous desire for knowledge, and have a good measure of curiosity and 
mindfulness Which had to the formation of a vast multitude of ideas; capable of devoting 
Dtion to any interesting subject, and are ever on the alert for new objects; often 
in. fully absorbed in the contemplation of persons and things; somewhat disposed to 
l< times examine minutely into details, find considerable pleasure in examin- 
ing new, odd, curious, marvelous things, which awaken the attention and finally engross 

ttehful, undistraoted, with syea that readily fix on each passing object which falls 
nndi Hon; hardly anything escapes notice, and so very regardful that often 

tilings - \cit- tli en attention and had to a good degree of information; have an inclination to 
obne M.i marked phenomena of nature: delight in using the microscope, telescope, 

i; like to overhaul and pore over old books, natural curiosities. 
ptol Stereosoopio Views, and the mind becomes so taken up with them 

devoted to their study; pleased to inspect intently the 
OtS winch daily come to view. 

in examining carefully, slowly and intently each painting 
art, as a philosopher Or SOholar would do, and are not satisfied io run over 

disposed to heed, notice and look at everything so at- 

learn somethi] ih object observed; Buob eyes take in a wide range 

"f i *hen time permits take an iuterest In noting details and minute particulars ; a 

'•' '-• " ,l 'iw. thiit learm i nvfulh nml accurately all that is studied, whether In science. 
or other departments of busy life. 



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11. Peculiarly aud astonishingly predisposed to continuous attention to and close obser- 
vation of subjects of contemplation, which inakts this mind a genius of extraordinary ability. 
Helvetius says: " genius is nothing bat a continued attention." Are emphatically staring, 
inquisitive, and over-curious, as well as determined to examine everything intently and 
closely; having a bias to be prominently and unusually upon the stretch for new objects or 
new phas. s of the old ones; will often devote nndistracted attention and inspection for a 
long lime to subjects whieh attract and rivet the attention; singularly gifted in the ability 
to direct the observation and attention, by an effort of the will, to the things about; have an 
unconquerable desire to see, examine and know. 

12. rake an extravagant interest in common and every-day objects that come under the 
range ol vision; are fearfully onsated in the desire to glean knowledge, and in the inquisi- 
tive disposition; exceedingly capacitated to notice and consider intently and comprehend 
each object whieh may be seen and examined; such a mind will give wise observance and 
thorough attention to the fulfillment and discharge of its full duty or obligation to society 
and fellow-kind; for he who gives no heed to the surrounding truth inherent in everything 
will be heedless of his own dnty and quite so of his promises; inordinately partial to see, 
examine, know and individualize everything. This rapacious passion for protracted and 
complete attention and correct observation are great sources of practical truth and 
knowledge. 

A. Without a good development of attention and observation, persons are liable to make 
many mistakes, because they fail to gain facts sufficient to guide them; observation is the 

pioneer of the mind, the pilot and guide to knowledge; while attention is the helms- 
man, and keeps the eyes and the entire intellect on the object of investigation and scrutiny; 
how important it is that the power of attention should be industriously encouraged and 
cultivated, and carefully preserved from impairment; because without it no effectual intel- 
lectual progress in the attainment of knowledge can be made; attention is the basis of all 
genius; Bnffon states that "genius is only protracted patience;" Ouviei says that, "in the 
exact sciences at least, it is the patience of a sound intellect, when invincible, which truly 
constitutes genius;" hear Lord Chesterfield on attention: "The power of applying the at- 
tention steadily and undissipatedly to a single object is the sure mark of a superior genius;" 
attention links the peroepient to the patUemia and reflective powers of mind, or in other 
words, it hold.-, the eyes and mind long enough on an object to give the reflective and moral 
powers sufficient time to act and decide upon it; the control which the will has over atten- 
tion and observation makes one responsible for the objects considered, and thus responsible 
for the results and opinions thereby created; by turning the mind from evil influences to 
the true and good, which are embodied everywhere in nature, we may wean ourselves from 
those demoralizing themes which lead to immoral and wicked practices; thus the faculty of 
attention, by simply directing the intellectual and moral faculties, becomes a powerful aux- 
iliary to noble, pure, and praiseworthy training, as it is of intellectual progress and 
improvement; hence we should strive to live and act with more off-handedness, and en- 
deavor to make the most out of every subject in hand for the time being; fix the eyes and 
undivided attention on each article as long as any new phase or condition of the subject 
can be discovered; this faculty of observation connects the mind with the external world, 
and finds food for thought, especially when it is steadied and held to its work by attention; 
ask questions, and inspect aud review closely everything which falls under observa- 
tion; by strenuous efforts of the will place the attention a long time on each subject exam- 
ined; and while striving to thus educate this invaluable and potent power of the mind, 
keep well to heart what the great metaphysician, Sir W. Hamilton, says on this subject: 
"The difference between an ordinary mind and the mind of a Newton, consists principally 
in this, that the one is capable of the appiication of a more continuous attention than the 
other;" Newton once said, "If I have made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient 
attention than to any other talent;" keep in view any new subject until conversant with 
it in all its ramifications, and recollect it is continued attention which catches the last fish 
in a deep hole in the creek; notice and examine each significant particular of every object 
passed; be attentive, mindful, and shake off those day dreams; keep wide awake, and 
notice all the little things around home; travel open-eye u , and don't be too full of false 
modesty to ask about what is not fully understood, and look a long while at each object 
worthy of study, bearing in mind what was observed yesterday and the day before in order 
to fully enstamp it on the mind, so that a slight effort of the will may again turn the atten- 
tion to the same subject; study science, especially physiognomy and geography, and become 
fully attentive to details, until a complete comprehension of everything seen is thoroughly 
secured, restiveness, fiightiness, and reverie of mind are abolished, and the intelligence 
strengthened into correct observation and engrossing consideration. 

B. If able to see so much that it makes thee a meddler, full of inquisitiveness about 
other people's affairs, which concern none but themselves, this faculty certainly needs con- 
trolling and repressing; then lead a solitary life of reflection; read metaphysical and philo- 
sophical works; think more of spiritual and less of physical subjects and their natural 
conditions; employ most of the time ic tracing the relations of ideas, and give less heed to 
the relations of objects and their utility. 



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HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 




Rect itud it iveness.— Rectitude. 

1. A thorough villain, wanting the primary elements of integ- 
rity and candor; are a false and deceitful person; overflowing with 
fraud and knavery; contemptible and honorless; a time-pleaser and 
inveterate turncoat. 

2. Fear of the law may deter this mind from manifesting dis- 
honest propensities; almost a deliberate scoundrel; a trimmer and 
time-server, faithless and unscrupulous; on the verge of extreme 
depravity; feel very little and manifest still less moral tone; not 
always honest. 

3. Possess some slight regard for duty, but have strong temp- 
tations to wander from the right way; have little remorse of con- 
science; can sail under fair colors, comply with the times, and 
cover hooks with bait to suit the tastes of everybody; as full of 
hypocrisy and dissimulation as was Oliver Cromwell, also the first 
Larl of Shaftsbury; impenitent, not entirely regardless of moral 
principle; will strive to justify self and throw the blame on others; 
not sufficiently frank and sincere to render the path of life smooth 
and enjoyable. 

4. Have a fair regard for truth and justice, liable to err under 
great excitement; ready with an expedient for the occasion; this 
conscience is a little seared and hardened, yet generally fairly trust- 
worthy; usually act natural and speak plain and definite; may 
silence the conscience for a while, yet it will at length speak out 
so loud and plain, that it will be heard in spite of all stifling en- 

Washington. — Disinterested <J eavors# 

honesty an.i . -harity. 5 Desire to be free from iniquity and unrighteousness; yet it 

neve and vex this spirit to hear others called just and honest; conscience will 

not likely make thee give evidence against self, though desirous of crushing out hypocrisy 

ind dishonesty in others; possessed of a good stock of craft, subtlety and archness, yet in 

social life will likely strive to do right, but are slightly inclined to use double dealing in 

politics, and maintain great mental reservation when cognizant of wrong doing; slightly 

nt in moral courage, yet aim to speak the truth or remain silent; purpose to drift with 

• b rather than be vicious. 

Not self-condemning, and if surrounded by circumstances and friends favoring up- 

->s and integrity, would manifest becoming deportment and lead a fairly blameless 

..t' ; if associated with the unprincipled and recreant may sometimes do amiss, though, 

so little, yet the upbraidings of conscience remand to equity and right; the creature 

: disposed to act in good faith and with fairness, but may occasional^ 

kdopt the rule of expediency when self can be benefited. 

7. Will probably be free from villainy and crime if the upbringing was such as to instil 

jusl ideas iind good principles into the mind while young; have tolerable respect for the 

and overt temptations alone will cause thee to disregard them, and then 

■• utrition tnsnes; will endeavor to do right; if pure religion and sterling morality were 

- .iily inculcated, bad actions will not be performed, or perversion of truth indulged in, un- 

1 d by regret, qnahnfl or compunction of conscience. 

- Not inclined to deliver long speeches on doctrine or duty; have correct and pure con- 

b; Ingenuous, frank and uudesigniug in general intentions; if undue 

U captation incites thee to transgress or go astray, penitence and self-reproof soon follow; 

irt, upright in purposes and BtrivetO deal fairly and candidly with everyone; 

mparativelj nr prehenaiDle and willingly aiding those whose lives like that of Aris- 

l ostracism or condemnation. 

■ EvCQ striving to be tair and impartial in judgment, but will sometimes fail: this is a 

BOUl, deeply stamped with the principles of integrity, candor and honesty in 

r work ■ ngaged, will go uprightly, direct and in a straight forward manner at and 

hi would be impartial, as ■ scientist honorable, in social and business 

acipled; intentionally naive and guileless, and consider the world as in good 

grateful for favors; ever esteeming fidelity and loyalty as gems worthy of a 

and even-handed mind, which this spirit desires to keep. 

l" ! . detesting deception and chicanery and maintaining fair play and pro- 

' ■> " l ^" 11 il 'l' occasion, hence arc a puissant ally of truth; have a high regard 

: '' J ,,v! • ''■ "■ <« • Ung and conduct; will try to live and do right, with intentions 

tobthouest nnd do good; love the upright m heart and cannot tolerate the wilful wroug- 

take dut\ as a Qientor rather than expediency; a faithful, natural plain, sincere, 

ue to prove worthy of trust in the time of trial and temptations. 

thorough approval to probity and* moral motives; desire to deal honestly with 

rouuhl) and Bincerely uphold justice, simplicity and plainness, and cou- 

1 Bubvi it subtiiitv and fraud; too certain, trustv and worthy to 

i\ and mi tne, with affected looks, counterfeit gestures and feigned 

Mi are one of the few who will suffer a thousand wrongs in their own persons 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 45 

or estates before they will do the least wrong to others; scorn to lie, dissemble or defraud; 
ever measuring to others what thou wouldst have meted to thyself; possessed of a powerful 
conscience, that if there are no other witnesses will give evidence against its owner in case 
a wrong is committed; will be likely to lead a very correct life. 

12. Indisposed to any course of conduct not strictly houest and upright; incapable of 
tolerating the least wrong: extremely exacting, sincere, virtuous, and self- reproving; the 
intensity of houest principles in this mind cause great remorse and severe upbraidings at 
imaginary wrongs; are extremely penitent, contrite, and self-convicted at omission, indis- 
cretion, or deviation from rectitude in self, and deploring, lamenting and rueing for the 
culpability and dereliction of others; Heraclitus-like, will mourn and grieve at the sins, de- 
linquencies and follies of men. 

A. Shun evil associates; speak out against falsity when discovering it. and doubly re- 
solve to not commit the same wrong; take arsenic rather than permit guile to enter the 
mouth, for the former poisons the body only, whereas the latter corrupts and dwarfs the 
soul; keep the moral principles inviolate by self-denial, constant resistance to all evil, and 
the avoidance of those who are affected and hypocritical; study the most plain, unassuming 
and honest persons known, and endeavor to imitate them; subject the lower propensities to 
the dictates of the higher seutimeuts; read the book of " Offices" or "Duties'' by Cicero, 
and follow its precepts as nearly as it is possible to pattern after a casuist; guide the con; 
science with the following noble sentiments by Zoroaster, a celebrated Persian philosopher, 
who lived more than J,.'JoO years ago: " If you doubt whether an action be good or bad, ab- 
stain from doing it; particularly treasure up the fact that no enemy is capable of making 
one so miserable and unhappy as a stricken conscience;" as with Beams, thePaeonian, who 
thought that the chattering sparrows accusf-d him of the murder of his father, and, speak- 
ing his convictions, caused him to reveal the parricide, for which he suffered death; do no 
violent, unkind, or vicious act because benefit is more honorable to the performer than an 
outrage; follow the dictates of judgment when oalm and undisturbed, lest an overt act con- 
ceived in passion may smite thee, as in Charles IX of France, who died in his twenty-fourth 
year, smitten by the terrors of an evil conscience, on account of his massacre of St. Bartho- 
lomew; also an excellent example of the retributive fury of an outraged conscience was ex- 
hibited in Richard III, who was tormented in conscience after murdering his royal nephews, 
so that all peace and quiet desert d him by day, nor could he find rest by night, but, mo- 
lested by terrifying dreams, would jump from his bed, and run about the chamber like a dis- 
tracted man; hence, keep the conscience an profaned, by doing toothers as thou wouldst they 
should do to thee, that the retrospects of lite may be the solace and joy of declining years. 

B. If the upbraidings of an over-sensitive conscience are ever causing the mind to 
dwell on little things, which are not so easilv determined whether they are right or wrong — 
one considering them correct another thinking them unjust — one should do that which is 
best k for the greatest number concerned, and let judgment and one's own opinions be the 
guide about minor matters; advise with some successful business man, who probably can 
give practical information and advice how to suppress the action of conscience. Locke, 
long ago, proved conclusively that we have no innate ideas or principles, they all being the 
result of education and circumstauces, therefore thine, so considered, irremissible unwor- 
thiness may be no wrong, but thoroughly ris^ht; legal and fashionable justice is often 
extremely unjust; for instance, Vauine, a philosophical preacher, was burnt alive at Tou- 
louse, in 1619, because suspected of atheism; innocent Galas was broken on the wheel, in 
1762, upon presumptive evidence; and thousands of other vile wrongs have been committed 
in the name of right. Cease condemning others and self for trifling omissions and commis- 
sions; recall to mind the absurd and inhuman usages and contradictory customs of the past, 
and the remarks in society and law to-day of those ancient barbarisms which continue to exist, 
because men generally judge everything' by prejudice, hearsay and chance, from the reason 
that few have the leisure, attention, capacity and impartiality to consider carefully every 
aspect and bearing of every subject; hence, as thine principles of equity have been the 
result or condensation of past errors, therefore, iu lowering thy standard of right and 
wrong, consists its correction. 

Com putationumerica I ity.— Numerical Computation, 

1. Hardly superior to a bushman of Africa in this faculty; can count four or five only; 
know naught of adding or multiplying; almost nothing whatever in numbers. 

2. Ever blundering and exceedingly slow in counting; the simple rules of arithmetic are 
eyesores to thi* feeble mind; inane, null and vacant in complex numbers and wholly un- 
acquainted with the higher principles of computation. 

3. Have little relish for arithmetic; slow and uncertain in numeric calculation, can count, 
add, subtract, divide and multiply small amounts in the most simple way; yet find little or 
no delight in it; often forget dates and occasionally fail to remember part of the multiplica- 
tion table. 

4. Able to solve simple problems, and with great culture would exhibit favorable arith- 
metical powers, yet manifest some infelicity in the solution of what is fractional, propor- 
tional, differential, mixed, involuted, interpolated, or decimal; would become confused and 
lost in measuring pyramidal, cylindrical, and polygonal figures. 



46 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

.tin _- in numbers is not this mind's forte, although long practice will lead it to 
: ..11 ; aided by slate, pencil and a good teacher to explain the rules of 
arithmetic, will make a passable arithmetician. 

rirly developed in the simple principles of numbers, yet would succeed better in al- 

! the high* r mathematics, geometry, trigonometry, surveying, dioptrics, differen- 

D in arithmetic: not highly adapted to the exact sciences. 

7. D ite knowledge of the number or quantity of anything; are favorably or- 

kralating; i njoy exactness and precision; like the scientific, axiomatic, mathe- 

mati ' I unerring; occu] >ying the medium between the aberrant and definite. 

8 With ; succeed very well in calculations necessary for business transac- 

;nt. add. subtract, divide and multiply quite readily, correctly aud easily; 

have uja-.'hension of the relations of numbers, yet are deficient in the extreme 

ision of imagination requisite for great calculators, like Proclus, Meton, Archimedes, 

irchUB, Copernicus, and Descartes. 

talent for figures; a ready calculator, and generally correct in esti- 

oantity or number; with practice would become an able statistician; can cast to- 

r in order' to find the collective value or sum total; manifest thorough-bred genius and 

38 in summation and reckoning; with the abacus, iogometer, tallies, sliding rule, 

. Napier's bones and other numerical instruments, would become able to sum up, 

tell oft, score, Buppute, add, subtract, enumerate, and take an account of material or abstract 

Duml 

10. With application could become quite an expert in calculating and estimating; ought 
to be rapid and correct as an accountant; inclined to count the planks in a bridge, the steps 

u. people in a hall, in fact everything seen; would succeed in any kind of estimating, 
and are well qualified in this respect for the higher mathematics; adapted to calculate in 
the mind, without the aid of instruments, slate, pencil or pen; delighted in the study and 
: excelling in arithmetic — a skillful calculator. 

11. are a rapid and correct accountant and ready reckoner; able to succeed well in the 
put of arithmetic and fully comprehend the higher branches of mathematics; are 

COR Ot and sure and can accomplish much in numbers; are off-hand, quick and deep in all 
manner of calculations, often without the aid of rules; apt to gather statistics and highly 
pted to logarithms and mental arithmatic; possessed of a remarkable memory of fig- 
ind dates; greatly annoyed by the mistakes of others in reckoning. 

12. Have an intuitive comprehension and intuition of numerical works of every kind; 
judge rapidly of the relation of numbers; are at times independent of the rules of arithme- 

ind excel everybody known to thee in calculation; bearing great resemblance to Man- 
giamele, the Sicilian shepherd boy, a mathematical prodigy, except that in thee there may 
large phrenological sign of this faculty and in him the phrenological sign of numbers- 
and calculation was exceedinglv small; the reader is referred to Lewis' "History of Philos- 
ophy" for further evidence on this point. 

A. Work the faculty in ciphering, counting, calculating, and in demonstrating and audit- 
!1 that is summed up, or where an answer is gained; then recapitulate and run over 
to see that it balances correctly; keep a thorough account of each item of expendi- 
ture and moneys received, then at the end of the year take an inventory of stock on hand 
and balance accounts to ham which is the stronger and heavier of the two — debts or self; 
ooolly oast up i very manner of outlay aud incomeas nearly as practicable before engaging in 
any undertaking; then multiply the expense by two, and the answer, after balancing the 
iiits, will represent clear profits; read statistics and census reports and tax the miud to 
r- in tnber them; trim the approximative tendency down to exactitude by becoming more ex- 
plicit and definite; strive to estimate the quantity of land, water, rock, cattle, horses, trees, 
lumber and 'very article seen, thereby enlarging the mind and giving it a precision, 
Itfa and grip worthy the best mathematician of the day. 

mg aw iy the slate, and lay aside the pen and pencil and roughly estimate what it 

Irable to know, and avoid those precise sticklers who are always reckoning and pro- 

lifflcull problems; do not attempt to get rich bv arithmetical calculations alone; 

attention to other subjects, and allow this abnormal faculty to rest and regain 

Characterioscopicity.-Perception of Character. 

*'•'' 1. Wholh unable to understand the motives or 

JL^JfLfry character ot others, hence are often duped and de- 
ceived by friends and fo< b. 
LMnH "' Know very little of the character of man, aud 

find no <1( li^ht in the study of the different phases of 

mind, ox of the peculiarities o\' people. 

^fciy-vl^ mod. rate capacity to divine the iusti- 

J^7 J *W^pr^> i-atiiiL' motives and fancies i>\' those met; quite taken 

and pleased with some people at the first interview, 
i like them less the ot'tener they are i 

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HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 47 

others' actions, therefore, are now and then deceived in persons; are often heard to say, 
they are not what I thought they were; the song of the sirens occasionally tempts thee 
into company th;it is distasteful aud worse than it first appeared. 

"). Are slow to comprehend the idiosyncrasy and specialties of each acquaintance; 
would make a signal failure as a practical physiognomist. 

6. Can perceive the vast differences and similarities of character, but make no note of 
the fine shading of resemblance or variance between people; know none well, and very 
few partially, while the great mass of mankind seem to thee much alike in dispositions. 

7. Have an ordinary perception of the quality and nature of others' dispositions and 
inclinations; not greatly gifted in reading the temper and capacity of a person from the 
features, yet are pleased to listen to clear and incisive descriptions of the peculiarities of 
well-known personages. 

8. Take considerable interest in the study of character under different circumstances; 
are not easily imposed upon; have a fair talent for understanding the mood and the capa- 
bility of a person. 

9. Are particularly fond of studying animal life, and especially the characteristics of 
mankind; quite inclined to notice the lines, indentations, marks and transitions of the 
countenance. 

10. Find great pleasure in viewing strange f :ces, and in deciphering their indications of 
animal, intellectual, and moral life; pleased to become acquainted with the peculiar quali- 
ties of a person or thim_'; always noticing the manners, notions, and whatever is singula! 
in the deportment, form and facial aspect of those seen. 

11. On meeting a stranger, are readily impressed favorably or unfavorably with his face; 
a ready observer of the analogy and similarity of the innumerable forms and faces of men; 
generally determine the quality and kind of human or animal character very accurately. 

12. Like Aristottle, Porta and Lavater, perceive the motives or tone of feeling and 
moral status of an individual with great rapidity and extreme accuracy; are rather suspi- 
cious of the motives ami conduct of others; can see through the masks of hypocrites as 
sun-light passes through clear glass. 

\ thorough understanding of humanity makes us charitable towards others, because 
we perceive that many of the qualities and t« ndencies of people were theirs by rdason of 
birth and other causes, over which the person had no control; hence study physiognomy as 
a charitable science; obtain the works of Aristotle on this subject as well as those of Porta, 
Lavater and "Nature's Revelations of Character, or Physiognomy Illustrated," by the 
author of this book, and thus lay the foundation for future observation and thought on this 
intensely interesting subject, which more than all others is of practical, everyday value to 
those who understand its silent teachings; travel and take note of the multitudinous forms 
of faces of man in every clime and nation; mingle with the world, look it cheerfully in the 
face, and when a knave is discovered mark critically well each feature, that the next face 
resembling his may be placed on the same list, regardless, of the position or the reputation 
of the person; for knavery is not confined to sect, creed, station or blood; notice all the 
slight variations in noses, eyes, mouths, ears, forehead and chin, and earnestly study, think 
and desire to know what each peculiarity discovered in the features signifies; as well as its 
cause; the word character is from the Greek word charakter, from eAofOSSO, which means to 
cut, engrave, or, literally signifying im],rc<sion, engraving; it is nature's graphic work on every 
living and inanimate object; everything has character; she sets her seal on the external of 
everything, and long practice and study enables a few to read that marking correctly; yet 
multitudes could lead fairly well nature's graphical handiwork, while few can ever read like 
a master what nature has so picturesquely described; there are only ten or twelve men in 
the world who cau decipher the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics found on the monuments, 
temples and t mbs in Egypt; and there are a less number who are competent to read nature's 
emblematic writing on the form and face of man; because so few there are who study it, and 
are willing to devote to it the study of a life; yet each can and should for the sake of self- 
protection, alone, study and learn something of physiognomy: study anthropology, ethnol- 
ogy, ethnography, and the science of man; and above all as a leading power in the study of 
the human race keep a warm and affectionate love and acquaintance by association with 
humankind and every living creature, and lastly listen attentively and sympathetically to 
all the signs of pleasure or distress evinced by animals (for the study of animals is the A, 
B, C of physiognomy), and fellow-creatures; yet keep a courteous and a reticent bearing and 
thus become a receptacle of their woes, troubles, habits and characteristics while studying 
faithfully their peculiarities, bias, mettle, disposition, proclivities and cast of mind and 
soul. 

B This faculty needs no restraint unless ungrounded suspicion is alienating true friend- 
ship; in case it is, turn the thoughts into other channels of activity, and never listen to 
worthless gossips, idle quidnuncs, jaundiced fault discoverers; and cultivate faithfulness and 
universal love; and endeavor to think favorably of others and to do them good. 






HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 




•i Horse— Large Friendship and 
tfobilttj of Character. 



Am icitiveness.— Friendliness, 

1. A complete recluse aud. ascetic, resembling 
William Lole, -'The Old Hermit," of Leicester- 
shire, England; a hermit even in the midst of 
society; cold-hearted, a foe, at variance with every 
one; without friendship or friends. 

2. Friendlessness would be no misnomer when 
applied to this miud; are uninvited, unvisited: 
inimical, hostile, inhospitable, and cynical; may 
mingle in society for business, but" not for social 

---^ happiness; will be likely to have but few, if any 
~i friends, and cannot rely upon them. 

3. The gregarious capacity is rather dry, re- 
^=|= served and feeble; likely to arouse opposition; are 

W easily offended by a friend; possess a resentful 
f temper; slightly dissocial and misanthropic; have 

not many, but a few, true and sincere friends or 

associates. 

4. Wish for a few friends only, and the number 
is very small; love friends tolerably well, yet not 

warmly or devotedly; cold-hearted and indifferent towards the great mass of people; visit 
very little, and never evince much warm-heartedness; have slight regard for friends, but 
more for other objects; have more speaking-acquaintances than real friends. 

5 May not be very quick to form intimacies, but become much attached to a few others; 
possess some of the feelings of sociality; enjoy solitary trips to the mountains or forests 
with family friends; American Indian like have no use or love for largo societies; will select 
B few friendfl here and there, and manifest warm attachment for them; will not make great 
sacrifices for friends or acquaintances. 

6. Enjoy fairly well the society of a few well-chosen friends; would like a large circle of 
friendfl because naturally warm-hearted, yet are too retiring to form acquaintances readily 
nml t asily; pleased with one or two for company and to converse with when traveling. 

7. The hearty greetings of friends are highly appreciated; pleased to win new friends if 
it does not necessitate the discarding an old one; possess an easy, conversible manner that 
leads people to believe this friendship is stronger than it is; are willing to do for friends 
what the judgment dictates, but are unwilling to sacrifice protective self-interests, or submit 
entirely to their guidance. 

B. An disposed to manifest friendly assistance as far as good judgment sanctions; mel- 
low and warm in attachments, and truly and eminently social; enjoy general society quite 
highly only occasionally, yet not disposed to seek it outside of a limited circle of acquaint- 
are B true friend though not remarkable for general sociability in large gatherings or 
among entire BtraiigerB; prize near and family friends very dearly. 

9. Phis friendship strengthens with trials; bound by a strong bond to the hearts of oth- 

of loneliness steals over this mind when alone and then it yearns to be with 

ind and true frieud to whom the mind may be fully unburthened; when once the 

lr.it. rnalfi eling is settled on an object of affections this mind remains truer than steel. 

1". Entertain a strong desire to be on good understanding and familiar terms with oth- 

I in concord and fellowship with the entire world; a deep, true and lasting com- 

-liip, so 'ality and friendship incites this soul to intimacy from mutual esteem and 

1 friendly assistance, even if it results in serious detriment to itself; a warm and 

iate nut me towards those loved; an earnest, tender, warm and trusting friend, vet 

feel more amity tlnu is manifested; have befriended mauy individuals unbeknown to old 

1 1 Highly amicably inclined and readily become attached to those liked; have very few 
. dielike bickering, altercation ox wrangling; desire to be allied and cemented to 
' !l ' '" h""est and respectable; are neither schismatic nor jarring by nature nu- 
ll being deoeived or through misplaced confidence; apt to trust friends or 
much as to lose by them; enjoy eating, drinking and merry-making with 
•nv, rsil.le and easy to make friends, 'therefore have many who 
ere I near, and constant. 

■ lack of intimate acquaintances and confiding patrons; are a favorer; charged 

i mate friendship; desire to be like the ancient Creeks who pre- 

Inhip by their laws and religion; possess that intensely strong friendship which 

iJohnathan and David, or that of Cesar and Aniens for each 

m ot a friend with pleasure; mourn Badly and Long over the loss 

fri< nds. 

itemize with those met; open the mind more confidingly to 

inainted with and Love everybody; associate with and shun 

"■ and honest; make no false pretences of friendship, because de- 

I :'n. consumes di\ haves: think upon the fact, that 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 49 

where people break up into small bands, each 6mall tribe at enmity with all, who are 
unconnected with their own tribe, there is little strength for defence, and feeble union 
for progress and improvement, as among the native tribes of Africa and North America; 
but where people fraternize and band themselves in large friendly societies, associations, 
and governments, they become powerful for defence or offence and for general and mutual 
improvement. The Germans are more powerful and intellectual, as a nation, than the 
French or any other nation, because there is more friendship existing between man and 
man, and between officers and privates, hence the fraternal feeling enhances military as 
well as social and intellectual power; and, lastly, learn by heart that he who is without 
sincere and disinterested friendship has no true friend. 

B. Devote more time to books and solitary reflection, and less to the amenities of 
society; live more alone, and pass all leisure hours in meditation; and recollect, that unless 
more wary and less inclined to befriend others, financial ruin may be thy reward. 

Mensurativeness. Discernment of Magnitude, and of 
Atomicity, or Atomic Conditions of Matter. 

1. Possess an unsteady gait, and cannot tell whether stepping two or three feet at each 
step. 

2. Hardly able to determine the width, depth, or length of a chasm; unable to tell the 
diameter of a ball or apple, or the distance to any given object, or its tenacity, elasticity, so- 
lidity, hardness or texture. 

3. Take pleasure in casually regarding surroundings; yet are a poor judge of size, with 
a feeble sense of perpendicularity, depth of water, altitude of a mountain, or attitude of a 
person; rather displace than to station an object; can judge a small nook better than a large 
field, a short distance more easily than remoteness, slenderness quicker than amplitude, a 
floor better than a cliff, and things still and supported more successfully than those pendent 
or oscillating. 

4. Have considerable desire for knowledge of the longitude, latitude and situation of any 
known object; delight in seeing angles; care more for the external than the internal; wish 
to know the circumference before the diameter; prefer to see an object or person fronting or 
facing than alongside or abreast; have a tolerably accurate eye to discern proportion or 
bulk : with practice and attention may judge well of angles, uprights, obliques and dis- 
tances. 

5. Take considerable notice of waste or moorland; this eye takes in a vast range at 
once, ami scans quickly the scenes spread out to view; though the second time seen, the 
object may appear somewhat different from the first view; may love the pathless wood, yet 
retain indistinct ideas about those scenes known years ago; have some, though not always 
correct ideas about density, tensity, inflexibility, inelasticity, crispness, and intertexture. 

ti. Can comprehend the straightness and length or breadth of objects; are tolerably 
sure-footed and a fair judge of the weight of animals or other things, yet not an expert in 
this respect; could never equal Fanny Kllsler in dancing, Blondin in walking a rope, Fish in 
riding a horse, or Dr. Carver in shooting. 

7. Have a tolerably correct eye for determining space in a room, length of a building, 
the distance of an object, if a sword is too large for a scabbard, the width of a crevice 
in a rock; can tell the depth of water, where the bottom can be seen, with fair correctness; 
notice proportion or disproportion readily, also perpendiculars and obliquities. 

8. Have a good eye to detect bulk, volume, magnitude, locality, bearings, posture, place, 
direction, diameter and superficial extent; table-land pleases this eye better than side hill: 
can place the finger in the center of a board, balance on one foot, pitch a quoit, roll a ball 
at ten pins, and estimate quite correctly the weight of live animals, or judge with fair accu- 
racy of long or short distances. 

9. Rarely mistake regarding proportion, quantity, magnitude, situation, extent or me- 
chanical importance: utility is a primal consideration to which this mind gives pre-emi- 
nence; have an intuitive comprehension of volume or surface, and can arrange objects 
according to size; and judge their relative weight expertly; capacitated to discriminate the 
density of organic and inorganic matter and their fineness, qualities and conditions; readily 
perceive the qualities of softness, elasticity, hardness, inelasticity, moisture, dryness, 
liquidity, gaseousness, and force of the wind, or horizontality and erectness of bodies or 
objects. 

10. An excellent judge of quantity, distance, angles, perpendiculars, solidity, texture, 
weight, centre of gravity; ought to skate, throw a ball, or measure articles by the eye as ac- 
curately as others can by rule; easily learn to hold a body in equipoise, or ride well and are 
quite sure footed; notice supposed perpendiculars of windows, doors, buildings, towers, 
monuments, looking-glasses, picture-frames, clocks, and the proportion of a wing or porch 
to the main portion of a house; can tell with great accuracy horizontals, angles, extension, 
vacuity, solidity, position, attitude, situation, diffusion, place, bulk, longinquity, interval, 
gap, span, line, elevation, width, depression, fluidity, rigidity, weight, solidness, malleability, 
and all the stable conditions and qualities of matter not dependent on light. 

11. Possess an excellent capacity for regaining and preserving balance, measuring all 
objects, and for detecting deficiency or overplus in expanse or density ; as well as texture, 

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50 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

quality, condition, fineness, coarseness, bulk, distance, weight, solidity, centre of gravity, 
and ought to be good in shooting, walking, riding, skating, measuring, balancing, 
burling, throwing; cannot tolerate inaccuracy in any mechanism; would love to engineer; 
lent in dynamical skill; readily understand mechanical forces, and keep the centre of 
gravity well: d< t( ct quickly errors in size, and fractional deficiencies of weight. 

12. Would « xc< 1 at archery and quoits; a dead shot; annoyed by disproportions, possess 

facility in judging of momentum and resistance: are well adapted to engineering, in 

ly like -lames Watts, Stephenson, Brunei, Fulton, Morse, Ericcson 

. mind that may, with its unerring accuracy in perceiving at a glauce the 

determining acutely the centre of gravity, set distance, weight and solidity at de- 

A. Become interested in all natural sciences; rely less on spontaneous conjecture and 
ition; travel and notice the size, weight, distance, and density of everything; 
visit machine 6hops and observe whether the machinery runs true or waggb-s; form an 
opinion of the weights of cattle and other live stock, and weigh them to coirect the eye; 
practise drawing, shooting, ridiug, throwing ball, pitching quoits and dancing; study physi- 
!ny, for there is no other science that requires a person to observe more closely, and 
is more thoroughly interesting, and that can be applied so often. Many persons have 
1 to me that since having read my work on Physiognomy, entitled " Nature's Revela- 
tions of Character," they have observed peculiarities in forms and faces which they now 
understand, whereas, before the perusal, the various forms of ears, noses, eyes, foreheads, 
chin-, etc , were, to them, occult or meaningless blauks. 

B. Lead B solitary life; read metaphysical and philosophical works; think more of spir- 
itual and less of physical subjects; employ more of your time in tracing the relations of 
and less in the relations of objects. 

Reverent ialness.— Reverence. 

1. Are as rude and impudent as a street Arab of Loudon — without 
respect. 

2. Devoid of reverence for sacred things or superiors; somewhat 
trifling and pert; win little esteem; worship the belly; idolize a mis- 
tress, tutored by the flesh; keep vanity as associates Bkilled in the 
art of impudence; would think religion necessary only to govern ignor- 

Extrome unt communities, and that wise men like Bacon, Voltaire, Hume. Huni- 
.^Jboldt, Burns, Byron, Agassiz, Professor Richard Owen, Huxley, Tyndall, 
, t ],'. Darwin, Draper, have uone and need no religion. 

:;. Impertinently inclined, but can be quite civil; nearly as blasphemous as Hacket, who 
was hung for usurping power during the reign of Queen Elizabeth; full of contempt and 
Aproysis, an Egyptian tyrant; sacrilegious as Crracha, Queen of Arragon;. 
equalling the irreverence and blasphemy of King John of Englaud; without reverence for 
the old or new; a free, familiar, disrespectful character; care nought for the doctrines 
unoonnecb d with good conduct. 

1. Rarely venerate anything as superior, and find few considered worthy of respect; not 

many ol the intelligent, the wise or the aged; if religiously taught will pray and worship 

anything, from an ox, elephant, tire, dog, clay, image, wooden-joss, carved stone, sun, 

i olden calf, brazen serpent, up to some imaginary power or unseen intelli- 

e, according to the race, early teaching, or intelligence: without religion, as the 

Epicureans who recommended retirement from public affairs; study, concord, and friend- 

p wat their main dogma. 

\ treat Othen with due decorum, especially the aged: remarkably inde- 

whioh is the opposite of vi neration ; if uneducated will be given to veneration, 

•Ad .rant arc extremely superstitious; gauge acts by the internal standard, or 

l.\ th<ir own mind; neither deficient in reverence for divine things nor tor that deemed 

I, DUN and holy; yet show very little submission towards men; like Theodosius J, and 

would destroy religious relies. 

in quite favorably balanced in devotion and submissive feelings; manifest consider- 

: l Ct for nature and religious devotion, yet none for creeds, positions or ceremonies. 

little for laws or men, unless deeming them good and true; not blindly devoted to old 
things and institutions merely because they are anoient; make religion subservient to the 

Qtj look upon much Of the fashionable religion of the present 

•ut Of the paganish ignorance ol the past and handed down to 

avoid extreme obsequiousness or derision; venerate the good and 

n. rii.l- Loose, Descartes, Kant, Cuvier, Mann, and regard 

\ with all tin deem them worthy or deserving; have fair esteem for 

ly bumble and submissive; possessed of considerable devotional 

I tew audi rstaud or know thine inmost sentiments of sanctity: are 
■ d and i. tiona; yet not void of defereno< ; ha-, idical 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 51 

8. Capable of being quite truly devoted to whatever appears reasonable or worthy, 
whether it be intellectual or moral worth, good deeds, good ideas, or great men; will respect 
aged persons and good laws, yet not remarkable for religious fervor, and not liable to be- 
come superstitious or idolatrous. 

9. Possess esteem for honor and merit for the good, disposed to pray some in silence, if 
not audibly; experience a strong feeling of respect and adoration for that deemed worthy of 
high esteem; yet far from being bigoted, idolatrous or religiously intolerant; willing others 
shall have the privilege of worshiping as their consciences may dictate, and desire the same 
right; have a nobly tolerant spirit. 

10 Have a high degree of veneration; are highly respectful to age, sterling worth and 
the laws of the land; greatly inclined to the performance of the duiies of love and obedi- 
ence to friends, family, civil authorities and superiors in a reasonable manner; esteem the 
good and noble wherever found, and treac all others with respectful deportment marked by 
civility; honor everything that is good or sacred with religious awe; apt to revere ancient 
rites and customs, and pay homage to aged people. 

11. Manifest marked civility and deference towards mankind: think highly of worthy 
persons, and of some kind of religious teachings; are greatly inclined to fervent prayer, wor- 
ship, and to engage in some form of religious exercises; earnest in devotion and piety' and 
over-scrupulous in honoring divine, holy, sacred, religions, pure, spiritual, wise, good, just, 
merciful, inspirational people, hallowed thoughts and heavenly thinga 

12. None are more highly reverential or more truly regardful of sacred things; the 
entire soul seems to center in the religious emotions; highly spiritual and prayerful; will 
never engage in a mob or become an outlaw; pre-eminently pious; overflowing with relig- 
ious fervor; saturated perfectly with serious humility; extremely devout and saint-like; 
consider worship, the core of human existence, 

A. If the young were properly taught obedience towards parents, teachers and the laws 
of the land, as well as respect for the rights and property of others, it would abolish 
thievery, monocracy, rebellions, and tramps; from the reason, that when the respectful 
disposition is developed and strengthened at home, by early teaching the young to obey and 
be submissive and reverential, the faculty ever after, of itself, prompts its possessor to* obey 
law and civil authorities, and hence he or she will not break out in rebellions against them; 
also, having been taught while young to respect the rights and property of others, the per- 
son will revere his neighbor too much to steal his horse, burn his barn, or kill him; and 
would hold himself in too high esteem to become a tramping beggar; we all prefer to see a 
boy with cap in hand rather than a stone; then teach each boy to doff his cap to others 
while he is young, and he will not forget it in after years; if desirous to be respected in old 
age by children, teach them to be respectful and obedient while young, and then it becomes 
part of their nature and grows stronger with their growing years, and acts more powerfully 
in maturity; never crowd forward or before others who have an equal right; speak re- 
spectfully of everybody, or remain silent; be attentive to aged people, and obedient to 
those in authority; willingly and gracefully submit to circumstances, like a philosopher 
tolerate the honest and legal views of others, however absurd they may appear; at night go 
out into the forest and contemplate the living world and millions of wonders on every hand 
then look away into unknown space and view the circling spheres that adorn the sky, while 
they silently persuade human intelligence that those objects of admiration are worthy of 
study and of the most profound reverence. 

B. First learn that veneration originates in wonder and fear; the child never respects a 
parent that he does not fear, and all respect death because it is an incomprehensible wonder; 
hence from time immemorial there have been wonderful stories told of the births and per- 
formances of chiefs, kings, rulers and teachers, in order to excite a certain amount of rever- 
ence and respect, sufficient to gain submission and obedience; ignorance causes us to wonder ; 
we cease to wonder at what we understand; ignorance is weakness, and weakness makes us 
fearful; then the true way to counteract excessive veneration is to read scientific and instruc- 
tive works, and take every honorable means to educate and enlighten the mind, and that 
will dispel wonder, and as knowledge enhances intellectual strength that abolishes fear, and 
thus the two great streams that support superstition may be turned into the channels of 
knowledge and strength; the advance of knowledge alone will in time remedy bigotry, idola- 
try, sacrifices, fanaticism, foeticide, infanticide, wonders, miracles, superstitions, narrow pre- 
judice, despotism, intolerance, tyranny, dogmatism, zealotry, etc., etc. Live in a country 
where the masses rule and avoid living where one man power is absolute, because that causes 
the people to look up and toady to the nobles and rulers, which destroys all manly and no- 
ble dignity; absolute monarchies tend to cultivate a blind and ignorant devotion and respect 
for crowns, ribbands, ornaments, insignia, and titled external marks of superiority, to the 
neglect of internal culture, self-reliance and independence; and lastly embalm in the 
memory this principle; that inordinate respect for traditionary superstitions and the opinions 
of others is the outgrowth of being accustomed to look up to and rely largely upon the aid 
of others and not sufficiently upon the resources of one's own mind; and tends to stagnate 
one's whole mental and spiritual being; by all means debar, inhibit or avert this inordin- 
ately large reverence, but not so much as to surreptitiously introduce a hornet's nest into the 
grab-bag of a fashionable gambling party; avoid blind devotion to old ideas that have noth- 



53 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

ing hut age to recommend them; cultivate noble independence, which is the opposite of rev- 
erence, and submit only to the just and the good. 

©IA>S8 "V.— TV\e E\e»a\'vv>e ^\\&ov*\\\.e\\\%. 
Prescience. 

1. All knowledge that comes to this mind, of events, arrives after they have transpired; 
information through discovery, dialectics, induction, generalization, or through the five 
senses, none from precognition or forecast. 

■l. Future events are wholly unknown to this mind; without power to unvail the future; 
a black night rests between thee and that which is te come. 

ive somewhat of a desire to foreknow things, but possess very feeble instinctive or 
intuitive . ndowinent;are not given to announcement and prediction; unweatherwise. 

I. Incidents and phenomena drop on thee unexpectedly and unforeseen, generally con- 
trary to or against expectation; hence are often taken by surprise, betimes quite suddenly 
Mart led and set aback at occurrences, that afterwards seemed as if they should have been 
foreknown. 

! i keen desire to anticipate truth and events, and occasionally know things be- 

forehand; such as the birth of domestic animals and their deaths, yet not very apt to pre- 
know coming events. 

6. Know little of the future and enjoy ruminating on the past and living for to-day, yet 
there are many things whose outcome is a mystery to this understanding; possess little 
knowledge of a thing before it happens. 

7. Are on the watch for most circumstances and occurrences; once in a while an event 
may take place without notice or warning, but have sufficient prescient power now and then 

Ot know beforehand what will come to pass. 

casionally entertain previous opinions about occurrences and transactions; have 
convictions of something unpleasant to happen; gifted with considerable foresight. 

9. Ever piercing into and revealing the future incidents; largely given to preconception, 
presentiment, prepossession, and preapprehension; capable of looking forward or beyond 
the present, and drawing conclusions pretty accurately about what will occur. 

1". Coming affairs cast their aura before them so clearly, that the person marked No. 10 
anticipates nearly all that is to follow; able to foresee and peep into the future with marked 
: icaeity; anxious to foreknow and forecast the future; presentiments enter this intel- 
lect as courageous soldiers do an enemy's surrendered city, to take possession and remain 
a long time; have often been known to declare or tell beforehand, very minutely, what 
afterwards took place. 

II. Superlatively acute in discerning the course of things and forejudging and antici- 
pating phenomena, events, advents, and proceedings; remarkably sybilistic and infinitely 
prophetic. 

U Capable of looking into and through the future with amazing freedom from obscur- 
ity; often astonish friends with the accuracy and clearness of this sibylline and predictive 
power; a rare and astonishingly prescient soul. 

\. This faculty which gives knowledge of incidents and occurrences before they trans- 
pire, is undoubtedly a mystery to many, understood by few and practiced by less; yet it is a 
power that is being created by telegraphs, which gives news so soon after it occurs that one step 
inor.- only remains to be taken to know events beforehand; a few of the advauced minds of 
iiimi. dm culture and development have possessed this previsive perspicaciousuess fully and 
mm mute ly; Swedenborg foretold the day and hour he would die, and Alexander Hum- 
boldt did likewise, tnd each possessed the power of omuisciousness, precognition and fore- 
thought in a marked degree; Ferdinand IV, of Spain, in a tit of anger caused two noblemen to 
b< thrown from a high rock; just before undergoing their fate they predicted to the king that 
he would die before thirty hours elapsed, which came to pass, hence he was named the Sum- 
I'"- ton's Biography"^ J thousands of other accounts of the correct action of 
It) hate been recorded in history; as this faculty gives knowledge of important 
fore tie y take place, it thereby warns na and our friends against impending dan 
bine the wise to make proper provisions against impending evil and also to prepare for 
tkeir ' "' \ '" the minds ofthe virions and ignorant this faculty is rarely, if ever developed: 
il thut, because the] have less power with which to take due advautage of 
uh before-hand; its cultivation may be conduced by living very temperately, 
egetablea, fruits and avoiding starchy food; bend all the energies to the 
oatur< lolitarily; give renf to all the impressions as to what is coming in the fu- 
ll monition and treasure it carefully; desire to know what will 
row and uexl year; refleel Leas on the past and strive to look forward to 
emory concerns the past, prescience relates to the future; then L< 
I. with this eleotrioal age, more forwards into the future: for he who lives 
in half buried, of little real service to the world. 
|: ,: tniafaoultj leads to fortune telling, then turn the attention to active business; 
««t ' animal food; live for to-day and take no heed of the future. 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 53 

Salitiveness.-Wit and Humor. 

1. Are the butt, though not the author of wit; are as dull, grave, and solemn as a 
funeral. 

2. Very sober and serious; a sodden mind; have no more soul for humor than has a 
donkey for art; cannot make merriment aud care but little about fun or jokes; not more 

• given to the humorous than Priam and Hecuba while their children are butchered in flaming 
Troy. 

3. Generally unfacetious and deficient in wit; rarely try, and when doing so, fail in the 
attempt to make fun; unable to turu a joke; a little droll, which excites laughter in associ- 

s; enjoy a good bit of tun, or a joke in suitable season; rather prosaic, unentertaining, 
.nnl Baeotian; an earnest, plodding, and humdrum mind; a witling. 

4. Have moderate power of combining ideas with a ludicrous effect; are very fond of fun 
aud occasionally succeed in making it, yet are neither a wag, humorist, epigrammatist or 
punster; not witty, yet playful; have more mirth than wit; can fully appreciate a telling 
joke. 

5. "Witty thoughts and funny ideas slowly enter this unlively intellect; stolid in trying to 
give pat allusions; and unable to play in words and phrases; not given to humorous expres- 

or odd and (plaint sayings; enjoy s good j »ke whether opportune or untimely; when 
venturing to be playful, merry or diverting, are unfortunate and make a bull, platitude or 
silly wishwash expression, th:it makes one appear foolish. 

8. Adapted to peroi ive and ielish fan, yet are not an original punster; are neither point- 
i nor nimble witted; are tolerably playful, lively, farcical and humorous, and pleased 
with lively company; now and theu are jocular smart, facetious and sportive, yet soon drop 
into a matter of fact mood again, and preserve gravity for sometime after; have a fair tal- 
ent for fun and jokes, though not highly gifted in smart answers; fairly appreciate the 
laughable. 

vie fond of that which coaxes laughter out of one; a lively, buoyant spirit, roguish 
in fun making; ever ready tor a frolic when it may be indulged in without sacrificing busi- 
ness interests; apt in perceiving and admiring an epigram, pun, conundrum, or repartee; 
enjoy jest, quip, or Hash of wit. quite well, though not always striving to make merry with 
■ciates or family friends. 

8. Take considerable delight in quaint ideas; have keen perceptions of the ludicrous and 
jocose; given to ridicule what reason does not sanction; a hearty laugher when detecting 
what is considered absurd or witty; will sometimes hit upon strange ideas that bring things 
together in such wise as to produce merriment; on some special event may say things face- 
tiously and produce considerable fun; enjoy sport and frolicsome amusement 

9. Epigrammatic sayings and condensed aphorisms make this person cheerful and genial; 
have a lively insight into singular metaphors or absurd comparisons; able to express one 
half of what is thought, and leave the remainder to be guessed; are quite fond of fun and 
sport, and laugh genially thereat; able to start or turu a joke; quite witty in replies; are 
merry ami happy in instituting new comparisons aud subtle allusions; given to elucidate 
briefly or suddenly the delicate relation between two ideas not very common; will laugh at 
the improper, happy, lucky, propitious or unbecoming. 

10. Highly enjoy whatev. r is witty or absurd; apt to discover something in an object 
which has not been before notice,!: capable of bringing metaphors to oppose each other in 
such a ridiculous light as to bring laughter out of the slow, stupid, matter of-fact people; 
are quite droll, odd and comical at times; persons can hardly tell when this mind is in earn- 
est from the everlasting habit of making fun and joking; are more humorous than witty; 
not inclined to the dry, cutting and hurtful wit, yet will often provoke a laugh and enjoy it, 
more than to retort with a stinging joke or make a pun. 

11. Appreciate a good joke; the ludicrous or comical are enjoyed highly, and can turn 
them to mirth-making; a reparteeist, punster and merryandrew; overflowing with dry, 
pungent wit; able to give those rovings of imagination and windings of language that pro- 
duce mirth, amusement and laughter; full of conviviality, merrymaking, good fellowship, 
heartiness and festivity; hate to be associated with demure and solemn persons, as they re- 
mind thee of the dignified, sullen and grim-visaged monkeys in a zoological garden; often 
feel within a sense of intense derision, yet evince no external indications of the risibility 
felt; able to bring others to smile, simper, grin, titter and burst out with shoutsof laughter; 
are witty, mirthful and fatten on the farcical, and roughishly jocular wherever and whenever 
those diverting qualities are lit upon; a thorough jester, ready with repartee, dry joke or 
witticism to dazzle, lightning-like, those plaintive sentimentalists who prefer to blubber, 
snivel, whine, groan and grumble rather than chuckle and laugh away the troubles aud mis- 
haps of life. 

12. Replete with instituted witticisms which are sparkling and provocative of merry 
peals of langhter; are a jolly, roistering, facetious, merry soul; markedly inclined to wit, 
fun, humor, drollery, jocularity, waggishness, jest and attic wit; exceedingly astute in wag- 
gery and farce; able instantly to cut jokes, perpetrate puns or jest, jeer and make fun of 
an j body or thing on any occasion; fraught with acute pleasantry and original wit: btl 
esprit. 



54 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

A. loo many there are who, failing to shine by thoughts, strive to do so by words; 
hence, endeavor not to add to their number by working dull thoughts into new expressions 
and novel construction of phrases, thinking them facetious and pleasant; wit, like poetry, 
most w II up spontaneously from the heart, and not be tortured into being by dull study; 
let out the funny thoughts as they strike the fancy, but never attempt to force a witticism; 
choose associates t'rom among witty, laughing people; laugh at everything ludicrous; read 
the writings of those men whose lances of ridicule and arrows of wit have relieved the world 
of vast burdens of folly and caprice; learn that the great art in wit consists in propriety, 
and that on great and solemn occasions, or when vast interests are to be discussed or 
fcreftfa d, wit is out of place; the best way of learning the just use that should be made of 
wit is to peruse and study the rare works of genius found in our own language; guard 
■gainst mixing false affinities contrary to decency and good taste, through a vain endeavor 
to shine, because that is only false wit; study the barbarous puns and plays upon words of 
the time of Francis I., that are to be found in the writings of Marot; the images that sur- 
prised were called wit in the time of Balzac, Mariet. Rotrou and Corneille, which was cer- 
tainly a step higher and more refined in wit than a play upon words, and thus it has slowly 
developed to the present time; study the wit of the day, and learn that a pat or witty rep- 
artee has raised men to honor and renown, more rapidly than more elaborate and studied 
methods ; hence, do not undervalue Mother Wit ; eat sparingly of plain vegetable 
food, for rich plum puddings and heavily-laden stomachs have smothered more true wit 
than all else; use freely metaphors, allusions, allegories, vivid comparisons; learn that the 
subtle and delicate manner of expression that pleases gives scope and strength to the wit 
of this half of the nineteenth century. 

B. Cease at once and forever trying to make wit, for all genuine and keen wit is spon- 
taneous; avoid those who are ever straining to say something to make a laugh; there are far 
too many dull and unentertaining persons who talk loudly of belles-lettres, comedy, and go 
far to joke, jest, and make puns, who have no genius for latter-day wit or refined merri- 
ment; then say less funny things and help to mitigate the evil; be solemn and earnest, and 
apply the mind to philosophy, history, or mechanics; abandon that everlasting grin, and 
suppress the inordinate inclination to ridicule; wit, like poetry, eloquence and art, belong 
only to the Celtic and dark races, but not to the Saxon type of mankind ; hence, if largely 

on blood, don't try to be witty, because each attempt will be a stupid failure. 

Sublimitasity.— Admiration of the Sublime. 

1. Without conception of grandeur in nature or art; mercenary, and more disposed 
to reside on low lands than in an elevated situation; displeased with lofty and sublime 
scenerv. 

2. Vapory notions of the vast fearfully creep into this mind, as do mice into a granary; 
unmoved by heroism, chivalrous spirit, or the sublime 'throes of nature; lofty, eloquent, 
sublime sentiments, or grand scenery affect such vapid, frigid, and prosy dispositions less 
than No. 12 shot do a rhinoceros, when tired at him. 

rand and majestic phenomena presented to view during a storm faintly arouse ap- 
preciation; care little for nature in her vast or weird aspects; show some, though not much, 
love for grandeur, vastness or magnificence. 

I. Can enjoy the lofty or grand in thought or style of expression; rarely excited by 
ipleadid equipages or greatness in nature; the vivid lightning, wild pine or fir woods, or 
the vast azure dome of heaven, arouses only fair appreciation, but no ecstacy. 

5. Sublime objects produce an uplifting emotion within this soul that tends to dispel 
wh.it. ver is egotistical and narrow-minded; prefer the plain, flat, tame scenery of England 

II 1 ind to the majestic and imposing grandeur of the Yosemite Valley and other sublime 
scenes in California; would look upon Niagara Falls as a suitable water-power, and fail to 

C-ive the crowning grandeur and vastness of the mighty cataract sublimely thundering 
- tw- . n supernal cli Ms. 

lied with elevated and lofty conceptions, when viewing magnificent sceneries, listen- 
M1 K ' ede of heroism, or soul-stirring perorations of sublime eloquence; are neither 

I oi tame being, nor vehement and sententious, yet when excited will manifest consid- 
!< l'-vc of the wild and grand. 
7. Majestic and lofty scenes awaken in this mind feelings of awe and desires for excel- 
Jenoe; ere at times highly elated by the wild, dark, stormy scenes of nature, or by vivid 
tning, majestic peals <>f thunder, shooting meteors, rising or setting of the 
Of moon, vast mountain ranges which seem to pierce the sky. These emotions are soon 
i, sol- mi), pensive, sentimental feelings. 
mountains, vast and mazy heights, deep gorges or weird glens stir this 
""" •' pirations; And intense delight in majestic, grand, wild, infinite, un- 

measured, sublime and splendid scenes; the emotions are stirred by thoughts of forever and 
eternity; peroeire msjeety in the jarrings and oommotions of the elements of nature when 
with another; enjoy a feast in viewing mountaiu scenery, the ocean when tem- 
i" ' '" •■"•'•. "" forked lightning as they Leap from peak to peak, the illimitable star-decked 
esy witn lU galuxn m iff worlds, the fearfully grand cataract, and all that attracts to 
appal. * ° 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 55 

iblime Boenes tend to exalt, eunoble, expand and improve these tastes; tuc oeetling 
cliffy cloud-capped mountains, soaring eagle, towering pine, impending storm, wreathing 
ke, colossal monument, vast barks, a vessel under full sail riding the restless ocean; 
expansive fields of waving ((rain, each stir the deep-seated emotions of this soul to grand 
activity: are an acute admirer of the magnificent, terrific, wild, endless, powerful 
and grand in nature, artifice or art. 

10. Mountain - -. an -dashed cliffs, the storm-frolicking mountain solitudes, 

•aoh finds responsive fibres in such a being; have a taste for grandeur, magnificence or 
splendor, yet likely to have pensive, sad or heart-struck seasons, though never so brief in du- 
ration; are thoroughly delighted with stateliness, solemnity, nobleness and lordliness in all 
nature; indubitably possess) d of unmeasured greatness in mind, in sentiments, in manners 
an 1 in conduct; though often misunderstood and consequently not fully appreciated. 

11. Instinctively led away to fancies illimitable by the' weird and terrific, whether in 
the crazy tempest or the angry cataract; within this breast ever burns the desire for eleva- 
tion, grandeur, excellence, loftiness of thought or style and nobleness of character; a lin- 
gering wish to exalt, to dignify, to ennoble and to improve mankind; abounding with ele- 
vated conceptions: over-pleased at seeing others manifest loftiness of thought or deport- 
ment; take unusual delight in reading the biographies of the great, illustrious and noble 
people of the past historical ages, and those of the present time; enchanted by splendor 

of appearance or grand qualities of mind and true nobility of soul. 

12. Vastness and stateliness of phenomena instantly transport thee from meagerness of 
thought to nobler and broader states of being and deportment; given somewhat to romance 
and deep fancy, and enjoy everything splendid, magnificent or awful; inclined to verbal 
extravagance, and p asai mate admiration of grand and sublime phenomena in nature. 

A. Depart from the busy the world; read the works of poets and authors who 

have grand and majestic thoughts and express them in sublime language; seek solitary com- 
munion with nature; watch the moon as it skims the sky, or the sun when it raises its* warm 
face above the eastern hori/on. or just as it is bidding good night over the western hills, 
and the grand pictures it paints in glowing colors morniog and evening; after seeing 
the lightning dart grandly down from the clouds, listen to the thunder as it rolls. 
peal upon peal, and slowly mutters its deep baas; §eek the ocean beach beneath some 
cloud-crowned mountains and there pass hours in meditating on the grandeurs of creation; 
read the lives of eminent men and women who became renowned for their pure, grand, and 
noble deeds; travel in foreign lands and visit the mountains of Norway, Switzerland, Spain, 
Portugal, and the Yosemite Valley of California; also study the pyramids and temples of 
Egypt and the marble temples of ancient Greece; and don't forget to pay several long visits 
to the vast museums and art galleries of Europe and America; live on or among the moun- 
tains and study astronomy and geology; listen to eloquent speakers while they pour forth 
torrents of ^'rand ideas, clothed in sublime language; abandon all mercenary ideas and 
dwell constantly in the realms of the magnificent and sublime scenes of nature and art, 
and associate only with those who are liberal, elevated, lofty and high-minded. 

15. Keep constantly empl yed in striving to get rich; live on the surface and give more 
attentiou to dress, fashions and the pocket, and less to intellectual uufoldment and culture; 
place the heart aud desires on worldly enjoyments; live on low land where no scenes of 
deur arc open to view; choose fashionable, chatty people who are self-seeking for asso- 
ciates, and avoid great and splendid scenes, picturesque descriptions, and chivalrous and 
illustrious people. 

Aestheticalness.— Appreciation of the Beautiful. 

1. Have uncouth ways, slouching gait, vulgar and coarse tastes, and think the cabbage 
i6 more beautiful than the rose. 

2. Pleased with utility and plainness more than with beauty of person or elegant and 
polished manners; likely to select associates from among the unrefined, rude and unseemly; 
with face smeared, linen soiled, shapeless garments, boorish address, and nearly devoid of 
appreciation of the surrounding beauties. 

3. A soul that is not ravished by beauty; to place such a mind among poets would be like 
surrounding a rlint with a circle of diamonds; are plain, rustic, and practical, not genteel, 
or fanciful. 

4. Take moderate pleasure in a pleasing assemblage of qualities in objects or thoughts; 
have simple tastes, yet not entirely deficient in delicacy and refinement; rather more phi- 
losophical and knowing than imaginative, enthusiastic, or ideal. 

5. Feel a glow of delight and appreciation for lives of beauty; not wanting in love of the 
fine, elegant or fair; but will not exhibit flighty and extravagant fancy; have fair conception, 
yet good judgment represses any undue tendency to the fiery, extravagant or fictitious in 
excogitation or imagination. 

6. Have considerable (though not an acute) sense of poetry and beauty; are neither in- 
clined to decorate, adorn and embellish, nor misshape, distort or deform people or things; 
are tasty, though not very imaginative; are usually plain and chaste in manners, expressions 
And habits; generally quite free from ornament or affectation. 



5(5 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

7 I Bu joy the beautiful in art or nature; have good taste, without being extravagantly 
fond of gundy frippery or showy trinkets; one of those wholesome, staid persons with a 
sensible, attic, and unaffected refinement, that is attracted to the refined, elegant and 

B. Imaginative and tasteful in a tolerable degree, yet not a visionary romancer, knight- 
. rr.mt ormgnflier; possess a good degree of power of fancy, and devotion to the beau- 
tiful; a fail tush- for delicacy, polish and elegance; will take pains to have things suffi- 
,i< utlv fine for common purposes, and like to see articles of use well polished, and if they 
ire v.'rv rich and not flawy they suit all the better. 

M superior taste and excellent conception, and are conscious of being able to pic- 
it' sensible objects; gifted with the invisible springs of imagination which com- 
pound ideas; an imagination that figures to itself, in a pretty clear way, the image of 
everything that has been thought; have too little of the true euthusiasm which consists in 
emotion and in imagery to be a great or famous poet, yet have fancy sufficient for eloquence 
dv, and the appreciation of picturesque expressions and sublime metaphors. 

10. Oratory, poetry and symmetry thrill this being with delight; have fancy of detail 
and • ipression sufficient for poetry, yet may not find time to write it; there are two kinds 

inatioii. the passive and the active; the passive fancy requires no aid from volition, 
and is common to animals and men; active imagination mixes together or separates and ar- 
thinga to please or instruct the fancy by the volitive assistance it receives from 
v and reflection; are happily capacitated in both, hence are adapted to retain a 
simple impression of objects, as well as to arrange the images received; the adequate inter- 
workings of this mind empower it to produce imaginative inventions or romances in an 
artistic manner; have natural good taste, sustained by originality of conception. 

11. Possessed of much sprightliness and buoyancy; have an ability and disposition to form 
of beauty and perfection, and aspire to the exquisite ; pre-eminently provided 

with the faculty of forming beautiful images in the mind; have a wonderful store of them 
in memory; this sanguine, fertile and warm imagination came from the Celtic or dark races 
the dark races are represented by black hair and black eyes — of Southern Europe, the 
natural home of poetry); are ardent, creative, fertile, Utopian and Quixotic; such 
boiling and excited poetic instincts of the imagination as these lived in India during 
it- glorious days, when all the best writers were poets, and their works on history, on law, 
on theology, on language, on medicine, on geography, on mathematics, on philosophy, and 
on metaphysics are almost exclusively poems; a mystic, pensive enthusiast and dreamer. 
• xisting more in ecstacy and idealization than in the real; passionately fond of fine orna- 

and mechanical, artistic and natural beauties which appeal to the eye; have a refined 
judgment in matters of ornament, fashion, beauty or art. 

18. Have the most perfect taste; can invent, create, fabricate, coin, devise, and fancy 
the beautiful in rhyme or blank verse, characterized by that particular grace or excellence 
found in Homer.Virgil, and Horace; have a fanciful, ideal, high-flown, air-drawn imagination, 
fertile and luxuriant even to disease, which, like an unbroken colt, runs riot on every occa- 
sion; regard elegance, grace, symmetry, shining polish, and perfected embellishment with 
pleasure; are highly offended by gaudiness, gewgaws, brutishness, Vandalism, 
( tothioism, or those who are affected, ill-mannered, awkward, impolite and unclassical; care 

r the menial duties of every-day life; as an author or speaker, would embellish all 
- tl.uts with complicated and beautiful imagery, and if this imagination is turned to art or 
poetry, i( i- inv. ntive, and gleams among intellectual people like a brilliant meteor shooting 
athwart the sky. 

A. If possible, visit Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and India, where imagination and 

bays ever outstripped reason and science, and study the poetical works of those 
OOUntrh I, and learn how they subjugate the understanding and exalt tin 1 imagination, and 
go and do Likewise; eschew all that is vulgar, coarse, unrefined, obsolete, odd, revolting, or 
iii Dad delate with those who are genteel, chaste, unaffected and refined; arrange 

everything in a tasteful manner, and invite an artistic friend to suggest alterations and 
Improvement!; drees neatly and let every article of wear be made in vogue, in order to 
DOC, becoming, and symmetrica] an appearance as possible; beautify the sur- 
roundii r grounds with landscape gardening and picturesque adornings; grace each 

tO "" i" He' bouse with works of art M beautiful and finely finished as can be 'made by the 
QDing hand of man; read the eleven essays upon the imagination, in the Spectator, 
and there l.-arn how sight, in its immense diffusion, enriches the imagination 
" lil " ''I the other lenses taken together; use only chaste language; avoid vulgar, 
; le; ami train this flighty, imagining faculty to the highest con- 
ception truth' refinement, elegance, and beauty, in nature, art, literature and 
human conduet 

the attention to works of utility; cast off all ornaments; dress plainly yet 

bear well to heart thai this extremely powerful faculty in its great desire for the 

and most beautiful that can be obtained does much damage by making 

when they are compelled to put up with the homelv and coarse; train the 

ful and beautiful combined; read works by authors who address 

to the understanding; avoid those fanciful authors who excite 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 57 

the imagination and who serve to render the judgment too weak to curb the imagination and 
restrain its precarious liberty; eat heartily, sleep much, aud ever guide the taste by the rea- 
son; and deeply impress upon the memory the fact that poetic reverence for antiquity, 
which diminishes as intelligence advances, hampers the independence, misleads the judg- 
ment, subverts the originality of naturally broad and good minds. 

Carefulness. 

^f^ t /*sf*\ *• ^discretion, rashness, imprudence and care- 

y*|^p§£u &ip^^\. lessness characterize this person; have no rein to 

«3^yijBft ddffirT^' " flfflW W ^y steed , an d he dashes thoughtlessly onward car- 

jMRHnff^ V% -• Ever unwary, cursory and remiss in conduct; 

<iv" , Wi unfortunate and unlucky because indiscreet aud 

"A. A ' \^cfjf r ' ' ^ s: ' • • > 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 i 1 1 ^ blunders and making mistakes 

fLlH| are ;l prominent fault of this mind; destitute of fear 

^^y A / A lEiy 3 " A ^ 3t t(> P retennlt aU( i gloss over matters when 

Wy _ , f^I- {\ Wjf I U)Ss i l) lf' feebly manifest wariness vthen calm, but 

^g^^^^^j^^^/Ba^Bri^^Sa uiu ^' r stlltts °* excitement become indiscreet, im- 
^^^"PPSB ^jMv ~^^^mefi»&~- prudent and injudicious, and when greatly irritated 

and highly agitated an- reckless, desperate, over- 
Th.' Oamal. Ouefolaesi wry large, and won. confldent, and almost a desperado; liable to get into 
dtrful tn.luruiKf. difficulty. 

•4. Slightly inclined to take no account of minor transactions; precipitation is interwoven 
with this constitution; will provide very little against danger from not being afraid of it; 
are rather too quickly decided in important matters; are below par in prudence and circum- 
spection; will betimes court danger, evincing both rashness and folly. 

•"). May omit or make light of ordinary affairs, and look sharp to those of importance; 
not remarkably heedful; generally strive to be circumspect; glance rapidly at both sides of 
a subject and then act without long and matured reflection; when once in the midst of dan- 
ger are precipitate an. 1 venturesome; hive a tendency to be slightly suspicious of people, 
yet will never borrow much trouble about to-morrow; usually have a care and take fair heed 
as to actions; speak out a little impulsively aud indiscreetly when angered; disposed to 
keep watch and ward and take sensible precautions, though not a false alarmist. 

G. Are solicitous and deliberate m a reasonable degree; have few if any fears as to the 

sequences ot actions; consider tolerably well the results of actions and sayings, and are 

usually safe in conduct; generally particular and discreet though not timid; being neither 

remarkable for solicitude or faintheartedness nor for blundering or omissions; at times are 

way wary, at other periods are heedless of consequences. 

7. Have forethought and precaution sufficient to keep from being negligent; are more 
prudent in actions than words; not readily nor often caught napping; show a good share of 
anxiety and regard, if not excited; possess a moderate degree of caution, and use it some- 
what; much more would set aside the likelihoods of occasional mistakes, accidents and 
misfortunes; in a manner careful, watchful, vigilant and circumspect. • 

8. Generally manifest due heed and care in an occupation if not hurried; rarely break 
things or let them fall unintentionally; not disposed to risk much on uncertainties, and be- 
times wait too long to learn how things may turn; uneasy when large responsibilities are at 
stake; generally on the alert and broad awake, and sometimes hesitate full long for business 
interests; gifted with deliberation and forethought ; inclined to warn others when danger 
threatens them ; having discernment, as well as being wary, circumspect and duly prudent. 

9. Take rational precautions against accidents, hence are comparatively free from blun- 
ders, errors, mistakes, aud the ill consequences of them; not liable to engage in expensive 
undertakings without first having mindfully measured the pocket and carefully counted the 
cost; have considerable though not extreme forethought; generally prudent, and in letting 
money prefer some kind of surety, bond, mortgage, or other valid security; sometimes quite 
anxious about results; are more watchful than suspicious, deliberate rather than procrasti- 
native; judiciously cautious. 

10. Are comparatively safe, from the constant tendency to look about home affairs and 
personal property and possessions; now and then look upon the dark side, and then a feel- 
ing of doubt steals over the mind as to success; there are times when such a person will 
hesitate too long for his best interests and lose golden opportunities by so doing; keenly 
apprehensive of dangers, and have acuteness in detecting them; are solicitous and prudent 
in a reasonable degree; are circumspect, reserved, and able to perceive from afar the conse- 
quences that are likely to ensue, and able to read to the extreme depths of an affair; 
are rather far seeing, and will strive to provide thoroughly against want and danger; guard 
well against prospective evils; take sufficient time to get ready before starting; incur no 
risks; at times greatly at a loss or puzzled how to act for the moment; are shrewd, solicit- 
ous, anxious, guarded, watchful, Argus-eyed. 

11. Full ofcautel and wariness, hence are largely free from perfunctoriness, laches or 
omission; apt to imagine troubles that do not exist, and make provision against all real 



; v s HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

ami manv imaginary dangers; very careful, provident, scrupulous and particular; adroit 
; n deliberation nd guarding against the venturesome, over-confident, m- 

ind Improvident; highly given to forethought, precaution, particularity, antici- 
tion, forecast, preconcert; settle preliminaries, make sure, gird up the loins 
';. ; leon the armor, ere engaging in important affairs, or before going out to battle for 
ire fully willing to lay the foundation prior to building the house, plow anterior to 
iv tr>inc attach a fire-escape to the building previous to the tire, keep a watchman or watch- 
dog ant! (•• dent to the robbery, obtain a pilot before entering the harbor; greatly inclined to 
ind give warning of danger; extremely discreet, heedful and circumspect. 

19 Particularity and deliberation render thee extremely prudent and discreet; exceedingly 
ite and gloomy, and look on the dark side of the world; apt to give admonition 
ce warning; painfully wide awake, intent, aud keep watch over business and finan- 
cial int. re^ts moat carefully; incident to borrow trouble, and live in fear of some impending 
danger; quite hesitating, extremely sure-footed, oyer scrupulous, woefully circumspect, 
bedly suspicious, and lamentably procrastinative. 

\. That the evil and good of this life depend largely upon the characters of mankind 
there needs DO other proof than their dear-bought experience, which attests that through 
weakness and deficient caution they have suffered themselvessto be misled, and to trust 
friends with property, which has caused them to suffer misfortune's bitter pangs through- 
out tlu ir remaining years; not only so but a want of care has cost many valuable lives; the 
mistake of the surgeon who opened the wrong blood-vessel in Joanna, Queen of Navarre, 
caused her death; innumerable sad, similar instances might be mentioned; it is absurdity in 
the abstract to allow carelessness to become an uncontrollable custom, as it pretty certainly 
guarantees misfortune, and the person who is always unfortunate is supposed to be so by 
bin own fault; a Russian proverb says that "misfortune is next door to stupidity," and 
men who go through life repining at their bad luck are experiencing the results of their own 
Degligenoe, improvidence, recklessness, bad management, or lack of perseverance and indus- 
try; couusel with circumspect friends and adopt their advice; never act on the impulse of 
the moment, but take time to deliberate on every subject; look more vigilantly for danger, 
and bear in mind that those who trust too much in their feeling of security are deficient in 
caution, and should strengthen it by giving personal attention to their own business, and 
trust nothing to "chance; " lay well' to heart that a single act of indiscretion, or a few hasty 
words may tarnish the remaining days of life with shame, sorrow and repentance, hence be 
ever on guard and place no confidence in that fickle dame " luck; " note well how heedful, 
industrious and cautious good men are who have lead successful lives, and follow unvary- 
ingly their prudent examples; be mindful that expensive and unsuccessful undertakings 
which prove to be useless "to persons or communities, are always a reproach to those who 
inaugurate them; it is better to remain quiet than rush headlong against a tree; so each one 
should be careful not to start in any project until the outcome has been carefully calculated. 
Hid then drive on cautiously with snug rein, guided by the light of honesty, reason, sym- 
pathy and cool discretion. 

B. Caution is a guiding power for other faculties, and when perverted, as in those for 
whom this verse is marked B in the table in the latter portion of this book, it causes the 
person to imagine trouble and ten thousand evils that have no existence, making themselves 
and all their associates miserable; such a person should make up the mind at once and 
dash on while judgment says all is safe and right; determine, by reason, to break away 
from over anxiety, and live for to-day and take no care for to-morrow; trust more to first 
impressions; pass over trifles, and cease to imagine evils, and know that they exist only in 
a disordered fancy without the authority of circumstances; put on the whip of energy and 
live more in out-dooi air, and excessive fear may be partially abolished, as it certainly 
that it shall not weaken the vitals, impair circulation and digestion, and ulti- 
mate m death; it overburdened and made extremely anxious through the occupation, aban- 
don it tor something more conducive to cheerfulness and fearlessness; if circumstances 
undue apprehensions, go elsewhere to live, especially where more resolution and con- 
tempt of dangt r ate necessary; pass more time in the company of reckless, off-hand people, 
t r i v # • . howerei little, to imitate them; and never fly from danger when public interest 
m\ r lhare it, because it is too great a pusillanimity aud cowardice to be guilty of; 

the full duty, act nobly like a brave being, give no consent to cowardice, and leave the 
issue to time and good health. 

Puritativeness.— Purity, 

1 BefSovk I and polluted inside and ont; debased and corrupt thoroughly, and all 
through in both mind and body. 

Devoid of nil sense of propriety or modesty; exceedingly vulgar and foul-mouthed; 
in tins heart lie rottenness, feculence, and beastly perils. 

in, urn baste, unclean; debased and offensive; repelled by all untainted 
sad pure people; hav. i desire to be better. 

Lre growing better yearly, and expunging the impure and unchaste thoughts that 
float into the mind; mm oqj to overcome all lubricity, pruriency, lust and carnality ; desirous 
©f becoming niur<' pur- . 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 59 

5. Have slight inclinations to be a voluptuary, yet can overcome them and lead a chaste 
life; will generally be decent and decorous in society, if not fully so in private; hardly as 
modest as would be advisable. 

6. Neither extremely delicate nor greatly obscene; good by nature; dislike those who are 
vulgar and unrefined; tolerably innocuous and undebauehed; might misbehave under great 
instigation and excitement. 

7. Able and disposed to keep within bounds, to regulate, to reduce in intensity thy feel- 
ings, and to make temperate or reasonable demands upon society; restrained by a due sense 
of propriety; decent, chaste, pure and delicate in thoughts and language; undue tempta- 
tion alone might cause thee to err and pander to low tastes. 

8. Possess the quality of being modest; here is one in whom happily there is an absence 
of presumption, and wlit-re innocuousness, incorruption, decency, chastity, and natural and 
cultivated purity have taken deep root; have a keen sense of what is becoming or proper in 
language and conduct; would tall through great enticement only. 

S >ne need try to divert this mind from the practice of the higher virtues, of con- 
tinence, pudicity, chastity and the condition of being pure; this body has force, power, 
excellence, and the mind is enstamped with moral worth, virtue and goodness; are usually 
blameless and pure, practicing purity according to moral law; chastely and virtuously dis- 
posed; not likely to err, except through great allurements to evil. 

10. Being of a dove-like and uncorrupt heart, the decorous and Platonic feelings are 
readily enlisted, and staunchly take the side of decency and purity; the libertine, the 
harlot, the debauchee, the fornicator, are naturally repulsive to this uncorrupted soul; if 
this person has failed in keeping free from ^nilt or defilement, it was owing to over per- 
suasion and the incitement and press of evil influence; generally guided by pure, good, 
and high-toned principles. 

11. Overflowing with violet-modesty and purity; regard the rakish, unchaste, gross and 
obscene with marked detestation; here reside merit, worth, credit, chastity; are one to lead 
■ virtuous and well-spent life. 

12. Pore as the whitest diamond; Timoclea, a chaste lady of Thebes, or Dominique 
Jean Larrey, a celebrated French surgeon under Napoleon L, was no more unpolluted than 
this spirit; one of the very purest in thoughts, words or actions; thoroughly free from guilt, 
impurity or defilement. 

A. Study modesty and purity from the violet; practice chastity and real decorum on all 
occasions; as the influence of companionship over character is immense, it would be well 
to associate with those who permit no vulgar thoughts to harbor in the mind, and those 
only; for if we have a dear friend, that person unconsciously and unavoidably exerts a cer- 
tain power over our thoughts and actions; shun those who have no conception of the word 
ought, and seek the society of those who act from the sense of a controlling principle of es- 
sential purity; study the life and follow the example of Thomas, Archbishop of York, and of 
Sir Isaac Newton, who lived remarkably pure and chaste lives and died virgins; give constant 
attention to ablutions, ventilation, and the selection of healthy food, free from gross animal 
magnetism; seek high altitudes and live on the mountains; avoid malaria, and especially a 
warm climate; it is noticeable that in the northern hemisphere of the earth the thoughts and 
conversations are of a purer character among the people of the northern portion of any 
country than in the southern part; and especially is it very patent that mountain air is more 
free from malaria and other impurities, and is certainly conducive to the production of 

Eurer thoughts and nobler aspirations; change the linen often, for dirty clothes tend to 
reed dirty ideas; for thoughts are only the result of conditions and circumstances, which 
law applies equally well to the production of all the faculties of the human mind; in short 
be as pure as possible, and study no book that has a vulgar saying in it ; thoughtfully abol- 
ish slang phrases from the page of memory; establish the rule to become less violent, Jbe 
restrained by a due sense of propriety, and extirpate the barbarisms and old abuses of our 
language and of every-day actions and habits. 

B. If disposed to restrain purity, don't do it, because in this half-civilized age there is 
far too little that is undefiled, becoming and decent, and far too much that is defiled, un- 
becoming and indecent in dress, in conduct, in deeds and in words. 

Cleanness. 

Remark: Order, or system, and neatness, are too often confounded by those who are un- 
able to discriminate closely. Si/stem may be defined as the orderly arrangement of things 
or subjects, and yieatness is cleaning the things whether they are or are not arranged accord- 
ing to some regular method; in other words, those who are neat keep themselves and other 
things clean, while orderly people have a place for things and put them in place and exhibit 
regular arrangement of all objects, whether they are cleanly or dirty; neatness is manifested 
in washing the dishes, and order in putting them away in rows on the shelves; cleanness re- 
fers to the condition of an object, and order to its relative place. 

1. Dirty as a pig; each article of clothing worn is rancid and corrupt. 

2. Are defiled with dirt, foul, and filthy; one to soil everything touched; each article of 
wearing apparel is spotted, tarnished and sullied. 



GQ HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

3. Love to see everything free from stain, or whatever defiles, and every person cleanly 
In habits: will not tuke'much pains to nrike clean the shoes and give them a shine or pol- 
ish, fail to wash things thoroughly, yet do wash the face after a manner because it is seen. 
'.\ Enjoy i ore than keep it; if rightly encouraged may exhibit some (though no 

putting things into a cleanly condition; will not take very much pains to 
avoid mud and tilth, and generally pay little attention to a dirt spot. 

.t torth some effort to keep clean and to appear neat, but the under-clothing is not 
yi bo Bootless as that exposed to general view; have mare external neatne?s than heart- 
paini to appear clean for the sake of others' eyes, than for self-satisfaction; 
tolerably clean. 

, tty free from extreme tidiness or defilement; hire to dirty or spatter any article 

rasa, and equally dislike to be always scouring and brushing: will now and then clean 

out the corners, drive out the flies, root out the spiders, shed soiled apparel, drain the 

■lis: bathe off the excretions; hence dirt does not aggregate well on thee and thine; im- 

ly cleanly in habits. 

7. Saving a natural dislike for putresence, slime, mouldy bread, bedaubed garments, 
tainted neat, iron gray boots, unkenipt hair, unwashed hands and face, offensive breath, 
maggotty cheese, purulent sores, cemented eye-lids, nose with something hanging in doubt- 

se, all of which impel thee to wash, comb, brush, fumigate, absterge, wipe and 
ventilate until tidiness and spotlessness mark everything about thy belongings: cleverly 

8. l)irt, filth, dust, cobwebs, soot and all coarseness or defilement this fine haired per- 
son deteat8; and is repelled from them as bees from vinegar; fairly well developed in voli- 

ference to future objects, especially those which subserve the purposes of 
health, rigor, salubrity, emendation, and are restoral and corrective, as well as those of 
contingent lubaervience, such as safety and invulnerableness against filthiness, disease, 
unheaithiness, degeneracy, or virus; are usually neat and cleanly. 

3fl ness, pollution, filth, scurviness, bilge water, putrescence, rancidity, dry rot, and 

r are quite repulsive to this tine grained being; take a good degree of pains to keep 

thoroughly washed and to avoid that which stains, smears, soils, taints, contaminates and 

abfl the person or clothing, and makes either these, or the food to be eaten, foul, impure 

and offensive; are quite clean in habits and person. 

10. Are disposed to make everything clean and free from dirt and keep it so; hence can, 
not bear to have the mice make nests in the cheese, chickens run through the soup, cats 

a swim in the molasses, flies entombed in the mashed potatoes, worms chopped and 
rinegared with the lettuce, eto. ; are particularly and exquisitely, elementarily and extraor- 
dinarily neat. 

11. Extravagantly tidy, spruce, unsullied, washed, immaculate and uninfected, and de- 
to so remain; cannot tolerate the least filth, slop, smut, mud or rottenness on any ar- 
ticle of wearing apparel; and are quite incommoded by any dreggy, turbid, dirtied, un- 
washed, beastly or effete thing or person about or near; festering and excrementitious mat- 
t. i--. are equally repulsive to this highly spiritualized and untainted being; everything about 
must be polished, shining and free from stain, or else a general uneasiness steals over the 
mind and adulterates its pleasures; desperately clean, incredibly neat and amazingly tidy. 

i ret will continue so while one finger nail remains, and a broom, mop, brush, or rag 
oan be found with which to scrub. 

12. Lamentably neat in personal habits; pained by the intrusion of a fly from fear he 
will leave a speck ol dirt; a leal whirling across the floor will set the nerves all on a nettle, 
ami a hair found in the drawing-room nearly produces in this over-sensitive and egregiously 
fine-grained organization nervous spasms; horribly clean in each act, and extremely un- 
sullied and immaculate in every thought. 

A. Brash up and polish the shoes; cast iuto the wash-basket each kerchief as soon as it 

lolled; "ft. n wash the head and entire body; clear the ears of wax; eoiub the hair thor- 

ly and brush it neatly; carry a clean pocket knife, pare the nnils closely and scrape out 

Sep a tooth-pick and pick out particles of food from between the teeth, and 

bruefa th< m with a tooth-brush until clean; often change the under clothing and stockings; 

bathetht feet In warm water ea oh night before retiring to rest; use the fork and knife at 

*>M< "low the nose into a kerchief and not between the fingers, and 

h the fame, and cease to draw the coat sleeve across the nasal organ; spit no 

particularly if given to chew tobacco; rub off the stains from the knives 

careful not to blot the paper when writing; and lastly, associate with neat 

le, and do U s they do, and allow no duty ideas to harbor in the mind. 

Dgly mat it becomes unpleasant to all friends and ac- 

Lntanoes, and should be counteracted, which may he accomplished by camping out a few 

months each SUmmi r and doing the COOking; as WS all are largely the creatures of circum- 

< wherein the people with whom you are liviug are noted 
•i never mind a little dust and earth, for it is magnetic and sustains 
■ ii.Miitly neat and over-particular persons rarely enjov good health, 
the thousands of , arthly jojl bv which they are surrounded. 



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Factimemoriativeness. Memory of Facts. 

1. In this respect like Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, New Haven, and Dr. 
Nott, President of Union College, at Schenectady, who often forgot their own names; his- 
torical facts and life occurrences are readily obliterated from the mind never to bo recalled; 
an extremely treacherous and unreliable memory. 

2. Memory is the faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous 
thoughts, and recollection is the act of remembering, or the ability to bring forth what has 
been kept by memory; possessed of very little of the faculty or the power to use it; ex- 
tremely forgetful, resembling Mr. Harry Thomas, of Otsego Co., N. Y., who forgot his wife 
and left her in Utica, and missed her only when sixteen miles on his way home, when an 
acquaintance asked him about Mrs. Thomas; daily occurrences flit away like shadows, 
leaving no trace behind; most of the ideas of this mind will soon be consigned to the wa- 
ters of Lethe. 

3. Knowledge occasionally escapes from this mind with surprising rapidity, like small 
fish through the meshesof anet; this memory sometimes fails like that of H. Holland, anEn- 
gish author, and as did Bonaparte's memory, which became temporarily affected for a short 
time during the retreat of the French from Moscow, as was the case with several of his 
officers and men; at times this mind seems to have some strength in recollection, yet when 
wearied from over exertion or exposure, will fail to remember accurately and well all the de- 
tails; this memory has vast blanks in its past pages. 

•4. May recollect important events, but minor details quickly sink into oblivion; can re- 
member the substance, object, person or place, though not the name; rather readily forget 
dates, unless the memory is aided by association: will often complain of poor recollection 
of what is read, yet the fault is ineousiderateness, more than defect of memory, although 
that is moderate. 

5. Have a short and unreliable memory which needs cultivation; have inconvenient ab- 
errations of memory, and through forgetfulness omit many trifling things and details; think 
it hardly worth while to try to remember names, because so apt to forget them; foreign 
words and expressions or latinized terms soon fade from the memory; can recollect that 
which belongs to daily employment, yet fail in retaining the minutiae of history or trans- 
actions, unless deeply interested. 

6. By taxing this memory it may retain the most necessary knowledge; are freed from 
extreme forgetfuluess or a particularly retentive memory; moderate but not great memory 
of events; it was once pretty fair but has lost power; rarely recollect words and often meet 
those whom it is impossible to call by name; somewhat absent-minded at times; not able 
to reproduce conversation that has occurred within hearing or the precise order of the facts 
and minute details, yet can gather the main substance and arrange it in words, if not always 
the most suitable; unable to call up a fact at will, but it may come unexpectedly and when 
not needed, showing that tho memory is stronger than the recollection. 

7. Are able to carry thoughts along with freedom, yet not very expert in the extension 
of thought to the past; able to treasure up very interesting knowledge in a rather clear 
and usable manner; can remember far better what happened years ago than late transactions 
or incidents; fever or fatigue so chains down this body that the genius of memory then 
fails for a time, but the power to recall knowledge at will is tolerably fair; remember pass- 
ably well by association; a lover of history. 

8. This retrospective endowment is not the best, yet, with due attention to a subject, are 
able to remember all the leading events and their correct associations with persons or 
history; a mind with a good degree of tenacity and readiness; can more easily retain in the 
mind the qualities of objects and events than names and dates; this intellect grasps adjec- 
tives more tenaciously than substantives; the recognition of people, places, and the geogra- 
phy of a country is better than the retentiveness of names, words, titles, phrases or 
languages. 

i). Have readiness in retracing the past as well as goodly retention; this is a full strong 
memory, and when the mind is deeply interested in the consideration of a subject, it will 
permit very few, if any, of the ideas to escape; are apprehensive, and receive thoughts 
quickly, but a few uninteresting items read will fade from memory's tablet; fully interested 
in the news and the changes of the day; can entertain company; and are fully conscious of 
what is being transacted, and disposed to think upon the past. 

10. This mind has great tenacity and retention; vivid reminisences of the past are ever 
marching in review betore this mind's eye; competent to revivif} 7 mental impressions and 
retain ideas and principles well, and rarely forget what is interesting, if striving to retrace 
it, but are now and then too indifferent to give sufficient heed to a thought to retain it; fully 
able to summon up all past important occurrences of life; have a clear and thoroughly trust- 
worthy tenacity of news, facts, stories, circumstances, or whatever occupies the undivided 
attention: rather fond of history in detail; given to search out items and particulars, and 
can readily cause past impressions to troop to the front, so the mind can see and use them 
at discretion. 

11. Retrospection is a pleasure, and withont difficulty can keep in mind all necessary 
and desirable ideas; able voluntarily to reproduce, with definite fidelity, previous mental 



(",_> HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

Options and revive niinutelv and lacidly past states of consciousna^s; can remember 

Mines like a naturalist; nearly everything that has been heard, read, seen, experienced, 

talked about and learned occur to the miud with surprising readiness and freshness; adapted 

to jj .th, r information, to institute libraries, to search out facts, or if thoroughly 

womd make an expert local editor. 

12. II iv. few equals unci no superiors in retentiveness, recognition, recurrence, tenacity, 

retrospection, rcnu mbrance and power to call vividly back to the memory any knowledge 

that li is once been in the mind; are exceedingly, even surprisingly remarkable in keeping 

branoewhat has passed; may appropriately be named a breathing history 

or a walking encyclopedia. 

A 1 he memory may be healthy and strong, or it sometimes becomes irregular, debili- 
; corrupted, heightened or lost as the result of natural decay, excesses, accident or dis- 
benoe t<> know what to do with any particular condition of the memory, one should 
inghly stu.lv its psychology and pathology; one ought to know whether the memory 
has cArontc affections, acute disorders, or manifests morbid phenomena only; heightening 
■:' the memory often occurs in the insane, especially in those who exhibit 
marked evidence of exact and capacious activity of extraordinary retentiveness; in some in- 
sane cases, however, there are confused and feeble recollections of recent transactions, while 
can recall vividly and faithfully the scenes of early life; coriuption of the memory is 
where one is able to remember everything except himself, and is a mark of partial insanity; 
debilitation of the memory is an accompaniment of an enfeebled body as in old age decline; 
BUoh was the condition of Kogers, the poet, who iu the latter part of his life forgot the names 
of friends with whom he was conversing, and in a single interview related several times 
over the same stories, and at last forgot that he had ever been a poet; irregularity of the 
nionic power, depends largely upon irregularity of the general health, which proper rem- 
edies usually amend; it is generally good, but (regarding some things remittently) very fitful; 
Dr. John Hunter was an example of irregular memory; at one time he did not know where 
he was nor where his own home was, and had no conception of more than the 
room he was in, and yet remained perfectly conscions of his loss, which in a 
few hours was wholly restored; everyone should learn what causes a loss of 
memory; in some people impairment or loss of recollective power has been caused 
by animal indulgences, moon-stroke, sun-stroke, a blow upon the head, self abuse, mercury 
and arsenic when injudiciously used, over purging, uterine hemorrhage, fevers, great na- 
tional scourges, yellow fever, plague and cholera, fatigue, apoplexy, paralysis, red or white, 
ning of the brain, epilepsy, physical decline and weakness, intense cold, starvation, 
anxiety, putrid lever, fright, bleeding, over straining by mental stuffing, trouble, violent 
passion, stimulants, gluttony; the latter caused the Roman Emperor Claudius to lose his 
memory so that he constantly forgot what he attempted to say in conversation; Newton for- 
ms contents of his "Principle" and lost his memory from neglecting to exercise it; 
th. celebrated Hude forgot all he wrote on conic sections, by giving his attention to the Bur- 
istemhip of Amsterdam. Among those having remarkable memories in maturity and 
old aye might be mentioned Niebuhr, Ben Johnson, Leibnitz, Donnellus, Muratori, Euler, 
(ir.>tuis, Edmund Burke, Pascal, Archbishop Tillotson, Clarendon, Gibbon, Locke, Samuel 
Johnson, Macaulay, Guizot, Prescott, Burritt, Humboldt, Lafayette, Clay: for a more com- 
plete list of wonderful memories, and full directions upon the cultivation of this faculty, see 
908 of "A New Physiognomical Chart" by the same author. The direct cultivation 
and strengthening of thi* faculty is, perhaps, more important than any other information 
DpOO this subject, and in this direction we will say: give the most undivided and intensely 
n; rated attention to all that is worthy of recalliug; read aloud and repeat what has 
I- .ii l- ad and then the eye aids the ear, and rice versa, thus giving to the mind a more com- 
plete impression, which perforce remains longer; review a number of times what it is de- 
siribl.- to retain; lire temperately every way, encourage good health in every reasonable 
maimer; associate with those who know by heart and can recall instantly any idea desired; 
U'l trust but not overtax the memory; adjectives aie the easiest remembered words, 
therefore Strife tun tain a few adjectives daily; then verbs being next in ease to retain, 
("liiiint several of them to memory daily; substantives being more difficult to recollect, 
memory Strengthens, tax it with a small number of substantives each day; and most 
difficult Of all to keep in mind, are proper nouns or names, at length on retiring to rest repeat 
ov. r several difficult names thai hive been heard oi read during the day, and try a few 
• manner, as they arc usually as diffloull to recollect as names; Vives says: 
nine Is from the senses to the imagination, and from this to the intellect — 
I maintains the sum theory ; hence in training the mind to recollect, first commence 
with oi.ji ( -t a w hi n appeal to the sves, the nose, the ears, taste and feeling, and lastly depart 
■ id< i- when the memory bss been sufficiently strengthened by sensational appeals; 
on memory; see sluo Gratiolet, James Mill, Dugald Stewart, Jean 
rdat, Dr. Prichard, II. Dnpuytren, Jos. Banks, Dr. Push, Dr. 
Dr. Bailie, Dr. Cooke, Dr. Graves, Andral, Hagendorn, Portal, 
He lam, end -'tie is. another novel, though not recommendable way in which the 
en improved and oonnate idiocj oured, i- by a blow on the' head Petrarch 
thai Pope \ I bad his memory ri marknbly strengthened by a severe blow on the 



HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 63 

head; the Dictionary des Sciences Medicale, vol. xxxii, page 321, gives an account of a severe 
blow upon the head impairing the memory, and a repetition of the injur) 7 fully restored the 
memory to its original strength; Dr. Prichard records an instance where three brothers 
were idiotic, and a severe injury of the head gave one of them good talents, and he is a 
practicing lawyer, while the two not hit remain idiotic; moral, perhaps more hitting and 
less schooling would be well for stupidity; Winslow on the Brain and Mind, Phila., 1860, 
page 369, states that a child aged thirteen was idiotic, fell upon his head, was stunned, and 
when becoming again conscious was found to be possessed of good intellectual powers; the 
same author, on page 370. informs us that Father Mabillon was an idiot up to twenty-six 
years of age, when he fell against a stone staircase, fractured his skull, was trepanned, and 
when recovered, he was highly talented and became a learned writer. Query ? Did the acci- 
dent enlarge the brain or render the texture finer? No. A nut not yet cracked by any- 
body. And lastly, study the art of memory and mnemonics; each night on retiring to rest 
call to mind every event or transaction of the day. at the end of the week review the entire 
incidents of the week, retrospect each month and each year in the same manner, and thus 
• mafic training, the memory shall become an useful and glittering auxiliary to the 
entire intellectual faculties. 

B. This memory has power to carry such a vast fund of knowledge, and rememorate 
such an innumerable multitude of facts, thai the mind finds too great pleasure in reviewing 
them, and occupies so much time in that way as to thereby impair its originating powers, 
and occasionally it brings forth other's thoughts as its own, dressed in new plumage, 
thus becoming detrimental to the character of an individual; all such, and those who are 
made miserable I y unpleasant recollections, should change the mind to other subjects, and 
strive to be more original in thought. 

Credulousness. -Faith. 

1. Casuistry, schism, and distrust appear in this mind 
as stars in the heavens at nightfall on a clear evening; 

■ptical as Vknnini and Servetus, who were burned 
to death for their unbelief; a materialist. 

2. A doubting Thomas; will diffide and mistrust nearly 
everbody; quite regardless of spiritual subjects: not dis- 
posed to believe in what seems incomprehensible or un- 
liable; doubt a future existence; full of shades of 

incredulity and suspicion, an unbeliever. 

3. Are shy of belief, and at sea regarding many sub- 
jects; require a vast amount of evidence to give faith 
to any unproved subject; new theories raise doubts in 

Large faith, and constancy of friendly this scrupulous mind; one to follow reason, and be in- 
attachment. credulous of much that was learned in childhood. 

4. Being somewhat sceptical, and at sea, concerning the theological teachings of the day, 
it follows that suspense, dubitation, dilemma, uncertainty, and incredulity rule in the mind; 
can place confidence in that only which appears reasonable; moderately slow to assent or 
consent to articles of belief, or to be firmly persuaded of anything; guided by reason. 

5. Have little reliance upon the wonderful, and desire good proof in order to be con- 
vinced; without much warmth, zeal, or unction in religious matters; more given to science, 
law, or commerce than theological polemics; this person will find it difficult to credit mira- 
cles, unreasonable stories, the resurrection, and plenary inspiration of the Scriptures. 

6. Can ordinarily take upon trust if the reason is completely satisfied; are not wholly 
devoid of faith, yet are inclined to search closely the true merits of individuals before tak- 
ing them fully to heart; will attentively hear what others have to say, and entertain as 
many of their statements as the judgment will sanction. 

7. Possess a fair tendency to believe friends, yet have no great confidence in strangers; 
are growing more sceptical and doubting as age advances; slightly interested in the succeed- 
ing life and immortality of the soul; a discerning and careful searcher for truth, yet watch- 
ful, critical and hard to believe farther than what can be proven. 

8. Rarely suspect or call in question what conforms to good sense; occasionally slight 
shadows of doubt arise in this soul; are rather easily impressed with new theories and ideas, 
and would also persuade others to entertain and adopt the same; are not remarkable for 
fostering the spiritual, yet place implicit confidence in near friends. 

9. Quickly impressed with the sensible and wedded to evidence; a questioning, inquir- 
ing, and critical mind, resembling Cleopatra, who asked the Jews whether people would 
rise again dressed or naked; enjoy meditating and conversing on the spiritual welfare of 
man. and on the immortality of the soul, yet are by no means a fanatic or devotee. 

1U. Are quite readily imbued with what others say; not difficult to convince; this is a 
being with a vast amount of the spiritual, yet may neither belong to any ecclesiastical de- 
nomination nor make a confession of faith; not frantically enthusiastic enough to burn a 
man alive, as Simon Morin was burned at Paris iu 1663, for having said that he had commu- 
nion with the Holy Spirit; La Barre had a hand chopped off, tongue cut out, and was 
burned to death for want of reverence and faith in some secret circumstance; are apt to 




(J4 HEALTH AND CHARACTER. 

anticipate ooming changes and easily become interested in the marvelous, yet care little for 
la and old forms of belief. 
1 ' . There are several kinds of faith, namely, faith in Deity, in mankind, in dreams, in 
1, in absurdities, and belief in future life; the noble trust this mind places 
ins their confidence, and leads one to think that faith aud dependence on man- 
kind l- it- strongest belief; are easily astonished and enjoy the marvelous and spiritual un- 
tre amazingly impressible; possess an abundance of calm, broad and sat- 
ith. 
IS. Unsuspecting and extremely fond of the wonderful; endowed with a spiritually 
sensitive nature; marvelously given to trust and place dependence upon whatever is worthy 
or deserving of belief. 

A. There are several reasons why this faculty should be cultivated when it is feeble in 
its sotion; some of which are, that, when strong, it gives us knowledge which cannot be ob- 
tained in any other manner; it is the great bond of social intercourse, by giving confidence 
one with another, thus ensuring credit in business, trust in friendship and reliance on fel- 
low kind, dependence on history and science, perception of the spiritual which uplifts the 
mind above earthly troubles and materialism to a higher and nobler state of action; it be- 
stows a love of the hidden wonders of nature, thus inviting a study of the thousands of mys- 
terious, beautiful, and useful objects which surround us on every hand; it aids intellectual 
progress by giving a ready acceptance of new truth which contributes to supplant old errors. 
To intensify and develop faith we should, however mysterious anything seems, make no 
doubt about it until we have carefully, thoroughly and honestly investigated the subject, and 
then rely upon our own knowledge, regardless of the opinions of others, who may be ignor- 
ant or prejudiced; meditate and aonverse upon spiritual and wonderful things, such as 
death, future life, soul, mind and its connection with the body, investigate the booksof the Old 
and New Testament, Christianity, religion and the doctrines of Brama, Zoroaster, Numa, Con- 
fucius, Thaut, Mahomet, and spiritualism, and don't believe any of them or anything else 
without finding truth and facts commanding belief; bear in mind that materialism shuts out 
many glorious truths and throws sand in the eyes of the interior spirit when it is searching for 
knowledge, thereby blocking the wheels of progress; allow no suspense, uncertainty, scruple, 
or qualm, to lead the mind into miscreauce or incredulity. 

J 5. When this faculty is so strong or so perverted as to lead the mind to superstition, dog- 
Mi itism, gross credulity, fortune telling or witchcraft, it should be repressed; superstitions, or 
belief in what is absurd, without evidence, are great obstacles to the progress of knowledge, 
should bar or stay them, which may be accomplished by faithfully reviewing the be 
lien of the ignorant ages, and especially of the ancient'Rornans, who believed that Mars rav- 
Ished i virgin, that the offspring was Romulus and Remus, and that the former founded Rome; 
Kua Tullus they believed that flames surrounded his head when a child sleeping in a 
cradle, this being prognostic of his future greatness; the Siamese say that Sammonocodom, 
their God, was born or a young virgin and reared on a flower; authors in Cochin China. 
say that the Indian God Fo, was born of a virgin princess, sired bv an elephant; and a mul- 
titude of other equally silly and false traditional absurdities; as* faith seeks and feeds on 
sderful and -rows by what it feeds upon, so the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Per- 
■i.l East Indians, South American Indians, and all other nations down to this dav, 
Id wonderful stories about their Gods, kings and rulers, and men whom they hon- 
or,.! an I desired the people to have faith iu, that through this overt weakuess they might 
ad ruled; the 'Institutes of Menu" are a collection of laws in India, and as they 
em, desired the people to revere and believe them, so they related wonderful 
tl those laws; the native Indian ohronologists of to-day hold that those Institutes 
in about two thousand million years before the commencement of the present 
faith originates large stories, hence it is that the people with verv large faith 
to unreasonable falsifying, yet they have such faith that thev often arouse 
DCliel in Others; a noted king and saint in India, their history says, lived 8,-iOO.ODO years. 

' years on v before he resigned ? ? ? The Sanscrit books inform 

k, an Indian king, reigned 66,000 years only, since he was cut off in his prime; 

'Top Siva as a god, and represent him' as having three eyes, girdled with 

temper and carries on his left shoulder the prisonous cobra di ca- 

Dd physics; give no credit to what appears unreasonable; 

Tks ..t Aristotle, Ouverius, Perisonius, Pouilly, Beaufort, Voltaire, Boa 

' lam Smith, Geo. Buchanan, David Hume, Looke, Berkeley,. Oondil- 

»-)lace, Ifirabeau, Saint Lam- 
lubenton, Coleridge, Biohat, 
. Jollet, Franklin, Lyell, Bioh« 
'». Draper, Buckle, Darwin. Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall, Ingersoll, and bv 
ire finish, d tbe enthusiastic heat of 'this' faith shall have , 

Attend lectures on science, history, travels, art, and 
" '!"• hardest plate of memorv, that, halls of science ore temples of 

'■'.inns and opinionathx creeds, »hert 



* ! "" Smith. Geo. Buchanan, David Hume, Lo 
;'. D'Alembert Diderot, Helvetius, Lalande, Laplace, 
•II'. Liebiff, Cuvier, Oomte, Mitsoherlioh, Daubent 

vth. ThomaH Tain... Buffon, Fourcroy, Nolle! 




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Courteousness. 

1. Extremely disagreeable; thankless, provoking, and would 
rather give annoyance and pain than charm, gladden, enliven, or 
fill others with pleasurableness. 

2. Are boorish, unclassical, uncourtly, ill-bred, impolite, blunt, 
gruff and churlish, and would rather repel, disgust and offend, than 
indulge, please, captivate, or satisfy. 

3. Are wanting in the pleasing power of being agreeable, suit- 
able, and pleasing to people; not very winning in ways; are now 
and then a little respectful, but soon relapse into the discour- 
teous, ungeuteel and rude, because it t ast befits the sour, crusty, 

Donkey.- Obstinacy.- Defi. snappish nature. 

cient in Courteousness. 4. Are usually passably agreeable and polite, but not greatly so; 

possess the ability to conform to the good wishes and feelings of others, yet are soon wearied 
with so doing, and become too independent to remain greatly popular; a little severe, and 
offensive at times, especially if greatly annoyed or provoked. 

5, Desire to welcome and fascinate, but are not uniformly pleasing; have an easy win- 
some, taking way when it will pay well; without being courteous, affable or polite, are in- 
clined to be civil and humane. 

6. Not characterized by extreme suavity, affability, urbanity or impoliteness, rusticity, 
incivility, rudeness, or uncourtliness, yet are not without some desire to be agreeable, pleas- 
ant, cordial, and genial; at first appearance are more striking than prepossessing; hence 
will take attention more than charm or delight. 

7. Have a moderate amount of the ability to please, gladden and charm ; yet are not 
noted for a disposition to flatter or win the general good wishes of everybody; have not de- 
voted much time to the study of politeness; yet are consistently civil and disposed to show 
courtesy as far as able when not angry; are rarely fully understood. 

8. Have considerable of the persuasive power, can readily become ingratiated into the 
gracious feelings of others, can easily assimilate to the associations and surrounding circum- 
stances; disposed to studiously avoid hurting the feelings of new acquaintances unnecessa- 
rily, unless provoked, and then say severe things; if thoroughly trained to be polite and 
agreeable, would succeed more than ordinarily well among those who are accustomed to 
good breeding and politeness. 

9. Possess a good measure of suavity and are disposed to be mannerly and civil; given 
to persuade rather than drive people; can generally win favorable notice; are able to say 
more and do more than many others without offending; are agreeably courteous, urbane, 
well-bred and obliging; generally, yet not always so pleasant; have a good amount of natu- 
ral tact in winning tho good graces of others; are apt to appear artless, innocent and attrac- 
tive; disposed to humor the eccentricities and disagreeableness of acquaintances for the sake 
of satisfying them and gaining their good will. 

10. Charming, winsome, delectable and pleasant in manners and conversation when it 
serves a purpose, though not so invariably; it does, however, afford this heart real 
pleasure to fascinate, enchant, delight and captivate the obsequious, familiar and oblig- 
ing feelings of others; are conformable with and in keeping with the good will of the well- 
disposed, and more especially those who try to cheer, charm, gladden and delight the souls 
of fellow-men; have a persuasive and complimentary disposition, which is repelled at once 
by what is odious, hateful or repulsive. 

11. Extremely fond of delighting and being delighted; disposed to be quite polite, 
affable, agreeable and pleasant; a suitable one to do the honors, greet and welcome guests 
at a private party, a public reception or a levee; capable of being and generally are polite, 
affable, attractive, easy and familiar, but can also be cool and repulsive when deeming it ad- 
visable, yet after all this is a spirit that prefers to be bland, pliable, conciliatory and con- 
formable. 

12. Remarkably and singularly given to coaxing and flattering where nothing else is 
more agreeable; a youthful mind that rar«ly offends, and when it does can quickly apply the 
panacea, and at once heal the injury done by the unwelcome and disagreeable; can keenly 
discern how others feel at the time, and as readily conform to the feelings of others, or sur- 
rounding circumstances; are uncommonly easy, polite, fascinating, pleasing, agreeable and 
winning in both address and manners. 

A. Study books on good breeding, politeness and courtesy; read the writings of Count 
De Orsay and the letters of Chesterfield to his son; associate with those who are polished 
and agreeable and try to imitate their exquisite and charming examples; learn that bowing 
and smiling fortified with pleasing answers have secured many a man's fortune; agreeable 
refinement and enchanting manners win preferment, and those are the surest friends who 
are won by reiterated civilties, which never fail of securing the good will of the public in 
return; whereas moody, dogged, ungeuteel, rude and tyrannical behavior are suitable only 
to make men despised by others and dissatisfied and displeased with themselves; carefully 
guard against uttering any afflictive, vexatious, harrowing, execrable, biting or disagreeable 
remarks; the truly great men have been the most marked examples of courtesy, affability 
5 



QQ HEALTH AND CHARACTEB. 

and amiability; bow, speak and be polite to the humblest and poorest human being; keep 
a double bit cm that fractions colt, resentful temper, and return good for injury, civility for 
incivility, affability for uncourtliness and at length the last trace of barbarism shall* have 
departed from this improved and naturally agreeable mind. 

lew there be who are over polite or too agreeable that extended advice under B. is 

imnnOfinnarj simply guard against being insincere, over-young or enravishing to others; 

at once the softly ways. Frenchy palavers, heartless flattery, and cling to mildness, 

:i, justice, kindness, civility, and sincerity in spite of all the toadies and the bon ton 

_;hout Christendom. 

Deductiveness.— Reason. 

1. An extremely weak mind, especially in intellect; wanting discretion; marked with 
folly, and often act stupidly, irrationally, silly and absurdly, hence others very justly deem 
this mind foolish. . 

2. A twaddler; full of trivial and foolish notions; think little and care less about the 
reason why things are so and their causes; fail to trace an idea out through its next change 
to the result; are half-witted. 

3. Obliquity of judgment causes thee to fail, where careful and sound conclusions are 
required; able, in a limited degree only, to put this and that together and draw conclusions 
and determine ri«^ht and truth, 

4. Tolerant, and capable of drawing inferences from ordinary facts; if asked why a thing 
is ;ts it is, will reply, "because it is so, ever was, and shall be forever more," with as littie 

n as the parrot repeating what he has learned; a feeble exercise of reason, yet lacking 
depth and profundity. 

5. Are not bitted or dogmatic, though not able to take the broadest views of subjects; 
lik-- to know the causes of things, but take little trouble to ascertain them; are not wholly 
exempt from a mixture of folly; when under great excitement fail to properly consider a 
subject before acting upon it, hence rarely fully comprehend things, and take little trouble 
about them; generally swallow all that comes to hand without reasonable examination. 

6. Dislike fallacious and irrelevant assertions, and appreciate dialectic minds; fully 
appreciate re-isons when given, may, by surprise, be guilty of doing foolish things, but 
never suffer them to run into an uncontrollable custom; are able to discover a few simple 
and narrow reasons; a mind not fully satisfied with the old evidence, and demanding new 
proofs of opinion. 

7. Fairly gifted in making deductions; can sift rather well the materials for reasoning, 
such as evidence, premises, data, and indications on one side, as well as counter evidence, 
disproof, and contradictions on the other hand, are also able to gauge the degrees of evidence, 
such as the possibility or the impossibility, the probability or the improbability, the certainty 
or the uncertainty ol things; possess a fair capacity and stronger inclination to perceive the 
leading connection an effect has to its cause; can trace causes to their effects; a plain, com- 
mon ^. ose, though not an intuitive or fanciful reasoner; rather given to controversy and dis- 
putation. 

B. Delighted with uniinpulsive and valid reasoning; can fully comprehend reasoning 
pro tenet and perceive what properly belongs to a chain of reasoning to give it telling force, 
that it may carry conviction to all reasonable minds that the truth has been arrived at in the 
Insione; are able to detect sophistry and misjudgment, and weigh each demonstration 
end each confutation while pa-sing from the premises to an impartial inference; as the re- 
sults of cogent reasoning are a full appreciation of the truth in any question, so through 
this logical power, this mind is manifested in a very considerable measure. 

K>nnd cause of known results is a study highly befitting these en- 

M- lit-,; altogeth i competent to giye a correct deoision as the result of cogent reasoning, 

on any suoj. ol where ratiocination can be sensibly used; quickly detectiug any obliquity of 

jndgm< nt or i rrot caused by false reasoning or illogical deductions; ever on' the alert for 

ion .,i depreciation of the truth; are given to theorizing, plotting, planning and 

^. and will redaoi an} aaserttona to demonstration; often ask for the proof and love 

I stat« ne n:s, a follows therofore that this mind readily perceives the truths of 

v are so deeply rooted in this mind that it requires demon- 

••: every new or Strang* a ibj vt; nble to form a decided opinion from a con- 

■' probabilities; will itriTe to confute errox by the process of induction; can give 

oioh supports or justifies an act, and take just views of conduct and 

toelled m deducing inferences from premises; endowed with superior 

in I art SCCOrding to the principles of good sri,-..- have an abundance 
. the evidence, and the complete demonstration of 

nil! understanding of the art and Boienoe of reasoning oor- 
d Q$e of knowledge; are discreet 
, which this person forma an opinion and arrives at just and sound 

• lom from big >try, dogmatisms and narrow conceptions; 



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like to verify, substantiate and settle every question presented to this intellect for reason- 
able consideration; have a very ready comprehension of the necessary laws of correct 
thought; can tell the steps taken 'in a process of logical ratiocination whereby a wistful and 
reflective mind passes from indication through the consideration of potentiality, likelihood, 
assurance and fact by induction and generalization, sustained by probation and demonstra- 
tion, tending to a philosophical and correct conclusion; a cause-seeking cast of mind thor- 
oughly disposed to investigate all subjects; a clear, sound, forcible logician. 

12. Manifest extreme soundness and force in all ratiocinations and reflections; have re- 
markable aptitude in generalization and in logic; likely to treat with contempt a person of 
weak mind; capable of the highest exercise of reason; are speculative, theoretical, metaphy- 
sical, and able to keep an idea boldly in the mind without losing sight of it, and recognize 
a law of universal causation; desirous of accepting nothing on faith, yet wish to know all 
the whys and wherefores; a cause-inquiring spirit, that is able to judge rightly after sifting 
the proof and evidence of a thought; possessed of a gigantic intellect of the first water; re- 
sembling Schopenhauer, the philosopher of the University at Berlin, Germany. 

A. A fact worthy of mention is, that when a person has very little reasoning ability, 
such person finds it difficult to reason, and it follows, that as it requires such extra labor 
to use the little he possesses, he very naturally concludes his reasoning qualities are very 
strong, in truth, he does exert great strength to use feebly only Lis weak reason; it does 
take great strength to drive a raft, and yet it is a weak affair, whereas he who has vigorous 
reasoning power finds such easy work to use it, that he most readily concludes that his 
power to reason is weak; the moral is, that it is a very difficult matter for persons to judge 
themselves, as this illustration applies to all the faculties of the human soul. First, turn 
the attention to the study of the rules of logic; then proceed to analyze the inductive and 
the deductive method of reasoning — the former process consists in reasoning from particu- 
lars to generals, the latter is the act of deducting an inference from premises; the last 
method is surmising a thing and then attempting its proof; the first is weaving facts 
into principles. The Americans and English are inductive, and the Germans and 
the Scotch are deductive. Bacon popularized the inductive method of reasoning, 
which mounts from the tangible to the ideal; the deductive method of reasoning 
is from impalpable principles to palpable facts, aud was generally used by the three 
greatest Scotch thinkers, George Buchanan, David Hume, and Adam Smith; reason 
literally means a calculation, then coolly and quietly calculate what supports or 
justifies each act of life before committing it; canvass all motives; examine every 
proof, learn what excuse a fellow-creature has for thinking and acting differently from thy- 
self; inquire into the cause of everything; assign somo cause for each act of man's life; 
draw conclusions, and strive to determine what is right and truth; give forth ^iews of things, 
and then ask some good reasoner to correct them if they are wrong; ask the reason why a 
thing is so; debate and sift thoroughly and carefully each argument heard; form conclu- 
sions and implicitly rely upon them; study metaphysics, speculative history of civil society, 
legislation, jurisprudence, astronomy, geology, thermotics, physiology, pathology, thera- 
peutics, political economy, physiognomy, pathognomy, psychology, and dialectics and the 
works of great reasoners; believe Dothing that appears unreasonable, and thus continue to 
exercise the faculty of reason, by deducing inferences from premises and the power will 
grow in strength and activity; condense, roll together and draw to a focus, all the pros and 
cons of a subject and give a plain, straightforward decision as to the truth embodied, and if 
anyone doubts or differs, then heroically argue and plan to convince them or be convinced 
by them; lay plans and look into the future for effects; or take the effect and trace back 
through all the mazy and crooked ways to find the first cause of the thing or subject under 
consideration and reflection; reason is to the human mind what a condenser is to a steam 
engine; reason condenses the facts to form all it can out of them; study causes and the laws 
of nature, and strive to account for all mysteries in a philosophical way; converse much 
with those who think for themselves and know why they think as they do on every subject; 
buy all the metaphysical works that can be found, and especially .procure "Buckle's History 
of Civilization in England " and retire to some quiet mountain retreat and study them at- 
tentively for several successive months and at last superstition will vanish and the mind 
will gain a wide comprehension and a firm grip, that will respect proven truth only, and 
hold fast with good judgment to the reasonable and the just. 

B. Few, if any, are endowed with overmuch of the logical faculty, which deduces 
conclusions from premises; but, if it is deemed desirable to rein in or contemper 
it, then follow the instincts and presentiments more; mingle in lively and fashionable so- 
ciety, and think and talk as superficially as most people in gay society; avoid quiet retire- 
ment and those people who do their own thinking, and in due time thou shalt not be 
troubled with too much reason. 



TABLE FOR MARKING 



Explanation.— In Columns I are the names of the Forms and Faculties; in Columns II 
are the numbers of the pages where the Faculties are described; in III the sizes of the 
Forms and Faculties are marked; in IV, A indicates that the Form or Faculty needs 
strengthening, and B signifies that repression is advisable. 



Column I. 

Name of the Faculty 

or Power. 


1 

7 

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o 




Column III. Column IV. 
Size of the Culture, A ; 
Faculty. Restraint, B. 


Column I. 

Name of the Faculty 

or Power. 


t 

o 


Column III. 

Size of the 

Faculty. 


Columw IV. 
Culture, A; 
Restraint.B 


Abdominal Form 

Thoracic Form 

Muscular Form 


3 
4 
5 
G 

B 

10 

11 
12 
13 
14 
11 
10 
IS 

u 

20 
•21 
22 
23 
24 

M 

M 

27 

19 
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33 
34 
35 

37 
38 
39 
40 
42 
44 
45 
46 
48 
40 
50 
52 
53 
54 
55 
57 

N 

n 
u 

61 
M 










Discriminating capa'y 
Mechanical Talent. . . . 
Physical Arrangement 
Perception of Angles. . 
































Health 

Lore of Life 














Decision of Character 

Observation, etc 

Rectitude.. 

Numerical Comput'n. . 
Percept'n of Character 






Animal Imitation 

Physical Hope 

Desire of Food 

Resistance . . 

Self-Estimation 

Time and Motion 

Playfulness 














































Discernment of, etc... 














Locative Habits 

Reception of Tone . . . 
Secrecy 
















Wit and Humor 

Admirafn of Sublime 
Appreci'n of Beautiful 














Judgment of Curves. . 
Desire of Possession 
Love for Opposite Sex 
Perception of Color. 
Incltnrttoa to Destroj 

Love of IooB| 

1 
Curative Power 






















Purity 




















Memory of Facts 

Faith 


















Courtoousncss 

Reason 























take , of condensation, the pronouns "you" and "your," and the verbs "are" an.i 
i^scnsT' purp0Mljr omltted - In "A «ses, the reader can readily supply 



MARRIAGE AND OCCUPATION. 69 



By Nature you are adapted for 



MAIRlKlIxKBEo 

Your companion for life should be 




OGNOMY IS 







Which is of practical value to all its students. The greatest wisdom, the wisdom which 
most nearly concerns our present and future happiness, undoubtedly consists in the knowl- 
edge of ourselves — of what we can and what we ought to do, and next to this in practical 
importance comes the knowledge of others — of what they can do and to what they are in- 
clined. Both of these branches of learning direct and impel us in the path of virtue and 
worldly success, and both are included in the science of physiognomy. So close, indeed, 
is the connection between them that they cannot possibly be dissevered. For, in the pro- 
cess of studying the often obscure operation of our own motives and the peculiarities of 
our own minds and hearts, we must needs be learning a vast deal of human nature in gen- 
eral. And, on the other hand, a knowledge of the motives and peculiarities of our fellow 
beings affords one of the most suggestive aud trustworthy guides to self-knowledge. How 
often it happens that we, for the first time recognize our own sins and follies when we ob- 
serve in others evil manifestations of a similar character. The Spartans knew well this 
peculiarity of our nature when they intoxicated their slaves, in order that the sight of these 
unfortunate beings, under the influence of spirituous drinks, might disgust their children 
with drunkenness. 

But physiognomy, besides affording a practical knowledge of ourselves and others, 
points out the way in which physical beauty is to be acquired. Experience proves 
that vicious habits and debasing passions, such as lust, envy, rage, avarice, revenge 
and dishonesty, leave unmistakable traces on the countenance. A disappointment in love, 
with the cynicism which results from it; an unhappy marriage, with its total wreck of the 
best hopes and aspirations, will, in six months, leave furrows of expression which six 
years of happiness will scarcely obliterate. These external and physical signs of inward 
and spiritual evil are as repulsive to the sense of vision as the characteristics and experi- 
ences they suggest, are odious to the sense of virtue. And there are many persons, caring 
more for the signs of virtue than for virtue itself, who will learn with surprise, and it is to 
be hoped, with profit, that the only way to acquire those charms of expression which they 
justly desire, is daily to practice cheerfulness, affability, chastity and benificence. There 
is no escaping that law of physiognomical science that whatever improves the soul beauti- 
fies the body, which is its fleshly tabernacle, and whatever debases the sonl renders the 
body repulsive. He, therefore, who would have his features express though tfuln ess and 
nobility, must learn to think with continuity and precision and to act with generosity and 



70 TE8TIMONT OF EMINENT MEN. 

uprightness. Considered in this aspect, physiognomy is seen to be the enemy of ngliness, 
as well as of stupidity and vice, and the handmaid of beauty as well as of virtue and 
intelligence. , , 

Again, the study of this science, aside from its direct advantages, incidentally expands 
the intellect by the wide scope of the investigations which it includes, suggests and en- 
courages. When the student of Physiognomy has learned the various features and com- 
Elexities of the mind and heart (and the external signs by which these are made known), 
e proceeds to consider the circumstances under which individual characteristics are devel- 
oped, and the habits and manners which result from them. In other words, he is led by 
this beautiful and far-reaching study to the most occult provinces of research; to a Physiol- 
ogists knowledge of the body, and a Metaphysician's knowledge of the mind. Nay, more; 
he is led by his expanded acquaintance with nature and her innumerable workings beyond 
the regions of physics and metaphysics into that spiritual atmosphere of light and knowl- 
edge. It is but a step from intelligent admiration of all that is made to rapt adoration of 
the Supreme Maker of all, and to this step the reverent student of Physiognomy is irresis- 
tibly impelled. 



Sestimcnn of <| mxncnt Men Sespecthtg jlbpsiognomp. 

"An high look and a proud heart." — Solomon. 

" A great belly indicates a vulgar mind." — Galen. 

11 The mark of a great mind is a dry eye." — Heraclitus. 

11 The countenance is the image of the mind." — Cicero. 

" The disposition naturally is, what the books indicate." — Ernest. 

" Physiognomy is as necessary (and as natural) to man as language." — Burke. 

" That man does not at all please me, and yet he never did me the least harm." — Rous- 
itau. 

" The physiognomy displays the good rather than the bad side of the moral character." 
Nlcolai. 

" The soul effectually discovers itself in the emotions of the lines of the face." — La 
Chambre. 

"Physiognomy is the science which explains the signs of the inward faculties." — 
Lavaler. 

"A forehead too large is the sign of a character timid, indolent, and stupid. " — Christian 
Schaliz. 

" Those who have a great forehead are dull; they maybe compared to oxen." — Gulielmus 
Qratdlonuf. 

"The proper study of mankind is man," "Let the physiognomist examine his fea- 
ture. "_/',,;„ . 

"What's he, who, with contracted brow and sullen port, glooms downward with his 
eyes."— Congrevr. 

"A man may be known by his look, and he who hath understanding by his counte- 
n IB06." 8( ■man. 

'• Nature has constituted the bodily organs with an exact suitableness to the qualities of 
the mind."— 0aien. 

" Examine my patients with a magnifving glass to see if the blood ascended in the small 
▼ewela. "—//--;' 

i hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy counten- 

I ni,{. 

" Wl„ n the gnawing worm is within, the impression of the ravage it makes is visible on 
the ouUide."— imrfce. 

Qomy, which discovers the propensities of the mind in the lineaments of the 
■ / Bacon. 
' r. hi i,l of | man is the index of sorrow; cheerfulness, clemency, and severity 

Pthty, 
l""l\ If the Image of the soul, and the soul itself becomes visible and tangible to 
aion." — Sulttr. 

we find and know that nothing passes in the soul without producing a 
gtible change In the body."- Wolf. 
' wiled wit! re rtabbiness of countenance, a person unsteady, 

phlegmatic, ■tupid, dull."- Joannta ab Indigan*. 

" NN ! *kel thoulderel each motion speaks; and in a tongue understood 

. and in a tongue that is universal. "— fcorgt Montague. 

I >ne who judges of the temper by the features of the face." " Phys- 
tognomick signs— Drawn from the contemplation of the face."— Dr. Sa?nuel Johnson. 



TESTIMONY OF EMINENT MEN. 71 

" Nothing carries with it a greater appearance of probability than the conformity and 
relation of body and mind." — Michael Montaigne. 

" All this discourse does indeed demonstrate the appearance of the passions more re- 
markably in the face, than anywhere else." — Schrodder. 

,4 A forehead of an excessive size announces a man slow of conception; dull or sluggish 
in forming his ideas." — Peuschel. Translated from the German. 

44 A single glance thrown on the physiognomy of a man gives us a clearer insight into 
his mind than the longest study of his character." — La Beaumelle. 

"Now that sanguine was the complexion of David George, the foregoing description 
of his person will probably intimate to any physiognomer." — More. 

44 1 do believe thee! 
I saw his heart in his faco." — Shakspeare. 

" If the size of the forehead be excessive, the man becomes slow of conception, and this 
is communicated to all his determinations and actions." — De Pernetty. 

11 A beautiful face always gives pleasure, but it will charm us still more if it has at the 
same time that serious air which announces reflection." — Winkebnann. 

44 Were men at more pains attentively to observe the external motions which accompany 
the passions, it would be no easy matter to dissemble them."— Leibnitz. 

4 ' It would be unworthy of reasoD to suppose that God should have purposed to inclose 
an existence so much like his own in a deformed body." — Mriximus De Tyr. 

44 The end of portraits consists in expressing the true temper of those persons which 
they represent, and to make known their physiognomy." — Dry den's Dufresnoy. 

" Every character has its good and its bad side; one man has capacities which are not 
to be found in another, and the gifts of nature are variously allotted."- KcBtnpf. 

'* Naturally certain persons have something so great and so noble in their aspect that 
the moment they are seen they fill the beholder with respect," — Oracle oj Graiian. 

M What is most pleasing or disgusting in the appearance of any person, is the character 
of the mind, expressed and delineated by nature on the face and in in the eyes." — Gellert. 

11 The king arose with awful grace; 
Deep thought was in his breast, and counsel in his face." — Dryden. 

"He was lean, as long as he was a prey to ambition and every species of mental dis- 
quietude. He afterwards entirely lost his reason and then he became plump again." — 
Swift. 

44 Is it the will of God, the great author of society, that the affections of the mind should 
express themselves bv the voice, the gestures, but more especially by the countenance," — 
Bailer. 

44 The soul and the body sympathize with each other; and when the habit of the soul 
suffers a mutatiou in quality, it, also, changes the form of the body." — Aristotle, from the 
original Greek. 

" In all physiognomy, the lineaments of the body will discover those natural inclina- 
tions of the mind which dissimulation will conceal or discipline will suppress." — Bacon's 
Natural History. 

44 The distinguishing character of the face, and the lineaments of the body, grow more 
plain and visible with time and age; but the peculiar physiognomy of the mind is most dis- 
cernible in children."— Locke. 

44 Yet Ceretes, by her face and phsingnomy, 
Whether she man or woman inly were, 
That could not any creature well descry."— Spenser. 

44 As all the passions are movements of the soul, most of them relative to the impres- 
sions of the senses, they may be expressed by the movements of the body, and especially 
by those of the face." — Buffon. 

44 That region of the face where the mutual relations between the eye-brows, the eyes, 
and the nose are collected, is the seat of she soul's expression in the countenance, that is, 
the expression of the will and of the active life." — Herder. 

44 It is not the less decided clear that the mouth, the eyes, and the lineaments of the 
face have a play, and variations, infinitely delicate, which opens, as it were, according to a 
very lively expression of Cicero, a gate to the soul."— Lord Bacon. 

44 An animal is never so generated as to have the form of one animal, and the soul of 
another; but it has always the body and soul ot the same animal; so that a particular dis- 
position must necessarily follow a particular body." — Aristotle, Translation by Taylor. 

44 Deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat; and public care, 
And princely counsel in his face yet shone." — Milton. 

" Mr. Evelyn studied physiognomy and found dissimulation, boldness, cruelty and am- 
bition in every touch and stroke of Fuller's picture of Oliver Cromwell's face, which he 
says, was the most resembling portrait of the Protector."— Horace Walpole; anecdotes of 
Painters. 



72 BRITISH PRESS NOTICES. 

"The physician who is a man of observation examines the physiognomy of diseases, 
• • • • The signs which enable ns to form a judgment of the nature of disease, of its 
changes and progress, are particularly perceptible in the features and in the air of the face." 
— Zimmerman. , ,.,,,, , „ , 

"Appion, the grammarian, hath left in writing (a thing incredible to be spoken) that a 
certain physiognomist, ... by looking only upon the face of men and women, judged 
trulv by the portraits that Appelles had drawn, how many years they either had lived or 
were to live, for whom those pictures were made."— Holland, Pliny b. xxxv, c. 10. 

" There is an intimate connection between the features and expression of the face and 
the qualities and habits of the mind; and every man is conscious ot instinctively drawing 
conclusions in this way for himself with more or less confidence, and of acting upon them 
to a certain extent in the affairs of life."— Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London, 1874. 

" Through his youthful face 
Wrath checks the beauty, and sheds manly grace; 
Both in his looks so join'd that they might move 
Fear ev'n in friends, and from an enemy love."— Cowley. 

"It must be admitted as a matter of fact, that all persons of any degree of reflection 
are physiognomists; that they form an opinion of the character of individuals from the in- 
spection of their countenance; and that they do this, as it were, involuntarily by having 
acquired an experimental conviction of the truth of their observation." — Edinburgh Cyclo- 
paedia, Edinburgh, 1838. 

"A bad symptom, when the eyes of the patient shun the light; when involuntary tears 
flow from them; when they begin to squint; when the one appears smaller than the other; 
when the white begins to redden, the arteries to grow black, to swell, or to disappear in an 
extraordinary manner. The more the posture of the patient approaches that which was 
habitual to him in a state of health, the less his danger." — Hippocrates. 

" The Trojan chief appear'd in open fight, 
August in visage, and serenely bright. 
His mother-goddess, with her hand divine, 
Had form'd his curling locks, and made his temples shine; 
Had giv'n his rolling eyes a sparkling grace, 
And breath'd a youthful vigour on his face." — Virgil. 



What the Press Say of this Eminent Physiognomist. 

BRITISH PRESS NOTICES. 

Lbotubi. — Last night Dr. J. Simms concluded a very successful series of lectures in the 
Ifssonio Hall. At the close the lecturer was awarded a hearty vote of thanks. — The Edin- 
inn-'ih Courant, July 12, 1873. 

Simms, of New York, has been delivering a course of interesting lectures in*thecity 
OD " Human Character." The lectures were illustrated by personal incidents of travel in 
various parts of the world, and were highly instructive. — The Baptist, (a religious paper), 
Ion, England, 1875. 
It. Bimmt'l lectures at Westbourne Hall are a decided success. We have never seen 
tins hall so crowded as on Tuesday last, when this popular lecturer delivered his 
truly popultl lecture on physiognomy and physiology. To all desirous of passing a really 
Intellectual and interesting evening, we would advise a visit to Westbourne Hall. — West 
I 979L 
a Dr. J. Simms, of New York, delivered the closing lecture of a se- 
nine lectures in the Otty Hall, on physiognomy, physiology, geology, etc., on Satur- 
nighl last. Th<- lectures have been very successful. The closing remark that the 
Intended to visit Glasgow si some future time elicited repeated applause. — The Even- 
lland, Jwu 28, is?:!. 

1. 1 n.s. — During several successive evenings Dr. Simms has 
rge audi, docs at the Music Hall, Albion street, with lectures on Physiog- 
nomy, I , ,,, r [ a B lecturer of twenty years' experience, and this, to- 
(tensive apparatus with which the lectures are illustrated, makes them at 
nd elevating.— Th* Lods ftfi rcury, England, Oct. 9, 1873. 
I I osl Saturday night Dr. J, Simms, ot New York, delivered the- 
Uet of a series of nine lectures OS physiognomy, physiology, geology, etc., in the City 



BRITISH PRESS NOTICES. 73 

HalL Large and intelligent audiences have attended the lectures, which have been highly- 
successful. The closing remark of the Doctor, that he hoped to revisit Glasgow at some 
future day and deliver another course of lectures, was greeted with applause. — The North 
British Daily Mail, Glasgow, Scotland, June, 1873. 

Lecture on Physiognomy. — Last night Dr. J. Simms, the well-known, eloquent and 
amusing lecturer of New York, delivered an address in the Masonic Hall, George street, on 
physiognomy, or nature, mind and beauty. The hall was crowded to excess. The main 
object of the lecture was to show that a close connection might be traced between physiog- 
nomy and character. His address was amusing, and was well received by the audience. — 
The Scotsman, Edinburgh, July, 1873. 

Physiognomy. — Last night Dr. Simms, the American physiognomist, delivered the last of 
a course of niue lectures, on the above subject, in the Free Mason's Hall, George street. 
During his visit to Edinburgh he has been attended by considerable numbers of people who 
desired to have the opinion of an expert as to their capabilities and disposition. The lec- 
ture last evening was delivered to a crowded audience. — The Daily Review of Edinburgh 
Scotland, July 12, 1873. 

Dr. Simms in the Lkcture Room. — Dr. Simms, the well-known author and physiog- 
nomist, who has lectured nightly during the past fortnight, in the Lecture Room, Nelson 
street, on "Physiognomy and Signs of Character," and other subjects, has met with a large 
and well-deserved amount of recognition from the public. The lecturer treats his subjects 
in an able and interesting manner. — The Newcastle Daily Journal, Newcastle-on-Tyne > 
England, Sept. 12, 1873. 

Lecture on Physiognomy. — A lecture was delivered last night in the Lecture Eoom, 
Nelson street, on the above subject, by Dr. Simms. The lecturer in dealing with his sub- 
ject enlarged upon peculiarities in the countenances of several great persons, and further 
illustrated his subject in a masterly manner by drawing comparisons in physiognomy. 
Throughout the evening he was attentively listened to by a numerous audience, who fre- 
quently testified their approbation of the lecture. — Northern Daily Express, Newcastle, Eng- 
land, Sept. 4, 1873. 

Our Physical Natures. — Dr. Simms, an exceedingly clever physiognomist and physiol- 
ogist is on a visit to this country from America, on a lecturing tour, and, last month, deliv- 
ered a series of the most instructive and, at the same time, amusing lectures at South Place 
Chapel and Institute, Finsbnry, to which it has ever been our pleasure to listen. We in- 
tend noticing these lectures fully in our next number, and now subjoin the following extract 
from one on " How to rise in the World," which will be found to contain some valuable 
information and advice. — Jxion, London, Eng., Feb., 1875. 

Dr. Simms in Newcastle. — Last night, Dr. J. Simms delivered the first of a series of 
lectures on physiognomy, etc., in the Lecture Room, Nelson street, Newcastle, to a very 
large and appreciative audience; indeed the commodious hall was filled to its fullest extent. 
The subject was illustrated and treated in a lucid and entertaining manner, and the lecturer 
repeatedly provoked the laughter and applause of his hearers. Independent of the dis- 
course, the exhibition of life-size portraits representing celebrities of all nations, races, and 
countries, together with natural curiosities, etc., will well repay a visit to the lecture room. 

— The Newcastle Daily Chronicle, E/iglang, gept. 4, 1873. 

Scientific Lectures.— For several successive evenings Dr. Simms has been lecturing in 
the Music Hall, Albion street, upon physiognomy, physiology, and kindred sciences, to 
large and deeply interested audiences. The system of physiognomy that the doctor pre- 
sents is new and true to nature, being based on observation and reason applied to animal 
and human life. The quiet humor that pervades each lecture, together with the reason ad- 
duced, will well repay attending the lectures. The vast collection of portraits in oil are the 
finest and most extensive that have ever been exhibited in Leeds by any traveling lecturer. 

— The Leeds Daily News, Englang, Oct. 6th, 1873. 

Physiognomy. — Dr. Simms, an American gentleman, is at present lecturing in the Vic- 
toria Hall, on physiognomy, phrenology, and kindred subjects, to large and appreciative 
audiences. He has the largest collection of illustrations in the form of drawings, portraits, 
casts, skulls, bones, etc., that was ever exhibited in this town, the walls of the building 
being literally covered, whilst behind the platform they rise like a gigantic screen nearly to 
the ceiling. On Wednesday night, Dr. Simms lectured on physiognomy, and highly inter- 
ested his auditors by the felicitous and convincing manner in which he handled his subject. 

— The Sundedand Times, England, Aug. 22, 1873. 

London Anthropological Society. — At a meeting of this society, held on Friday, Dr. 
Charnock, F.S.A., president, in the chair, a paper was read on "Literary Dutch in'Old 
English Provincialisms," by Dr. Alex. V. W. Bikkers. The author endeavored to support 
certain points of the Schleicherian evolution theory as applied to linguistic phenomena. 
Dr. Simms exhibited and described several Egyptian skulls (ancient and modern), and re- 
marked on the different races and their habits." He considered that there was much resem- 
blance between the ancient Egyptians and the North American Indians, but of course none 
between the ancient Egyptians and the Arabs who now chiefly occupy their country. Dr. 
Carter Blake, Mr. A. L. Lewis, Mr. Churchill, and the President, joined in the discussion 
which followed —City Press, London, England, Feb. 20, 1875. 



74 BRITISH PRESS NOTICES. 

Popcxab Scievttfc Lectures.— Every evening of last and each evening of this week, 
Dr. Simms has delivered lectures in London (in Westbourne Hall, Westbourne Grove), to 
large, delighted, and highly-appreciative audiences of the elite. The audience, who were 
able to gun admittance— as some evenings hundreds could not gain entrance, owing to the 
vast cr..wds— have received instraction in the Doctor's new system of physiognomy which 
hfl has discovered and will soon print for the public. Some evenings several reporters were 
basy taking the lecture in shorthand as it was delivered. The Doctor's system of physiog- 
nomy is new, and strictly in harmony with nature and common sense, sustained with sound 
logic The practical tests given by delineating character from the faces of subjects chosen 
or volunteers from the audience, at the close of each lecture, were given with remarkable 
facility, and were the very best proofs of the correctness of the new system of physiognomy. 
The Doctor has been hired to lecture for several associations and societies in London, 
before leaving to make a journey to Rome, Africa, Asia, etc. — Tfie Daybreak, London, Eng., 
Nov. 14, 1873. 

Lecture on Physiology and Physiognomy.— Last night, Dr. Simms, the American phy- 
siologist, delivered a lecture on physiognomy in the Masonic Hall, which was crowded to 
the door, a large number of persons being unable to gain admittance. The lecturer spoke 
at considerable length on the effect of organization, education, and circumstances on, the 
formation of the human character. He contended that wherever variegation of color was 
found the law of domestication established itself, and wherever the universality of color pre- 
vailed the law of progress ceased. Instances of this were found in the Indian race, and in 
the lower animals, such as the tiger, the zebra, and the black bear. The lecturer also held 
that the darker colored members of any species were coarser in their Batures than those of 
a lighter hue, and this accounted for the fact of the female sex, who were lighter colored 
than men, being possessed of more refined natures. (Laughter and cheers.) After speak- 
ing of the resemblance in character and physical conformation between certain classes of 
men and animals, the lecturer touched on the subject of physiognomy. A largely devel- 
oped nose and chin, he said, indicated energy and constitutional power, a round eye was an 
evidence of a mating love nature, and an eye with the commissure elongated a polygamic or 
promiscuous love nature, while an eye which opened largely indicated friendship. The lec- 
turer illustrated the subjects on which he spoke by means of portraits of celebrated charac- 
ters in Europe and America. At the close Dr. Simms was awarded a hearty vote of thanks 
for his address. — Daily Review, Edinburgh, July 3, 1873. 

Anthropological Institute. — The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 
opened its session for 1873-4 last evening, at the rooms, No. 4 St. Martins-lane. The Presi- 
dent, Professor Busk, F.R.S., occupied the chair. The first paper read was by Consul 
Hutchinson, F.R.G.S., describing the result of his explorations among the ancient burial 
grounds of Peru, chiefly in valleys on the sea coasts. Mr. Hutchinson has sent to England 
80 skulls, which he has collected between Lima and Callao. The object of the paper was to 
show what were the relative positions of the skulls, and their accompaniments when found . 

A most interesting oral communication was made by Dr. Simms, of New York, on a flat- 
tened skull which he had brought from the Island of Mameluke, in the river Columbia. 
Bodies, are not buried in the ground in that district, but after being bound up in buckskin 
are piled one above another on the island, which is used as a burial-ground. A framework 
of plunks is used to keep the bodies in position. He examined many hundreds of skulls, 
all Battened, and he also examined heads of living people, and inquired how the flattening 
accomplished. Aboard is placed across the frontal, and another across the occipital 
bone when the child is a few hours old, and the flattening has generally become permanent 
in nine months, when the boards are removed. The following important facts were men- 
tion, d: The flattening does not seem to cause pain; males and females are treated alike. 
though it has been supposed only males of a certain class received the "honor of flatten- 
ing" The flattening is not apparently transmitted from parents to children; and, judging 
aeral aonteneaaof the Indians, the practice does not seem to affect the brain.— 
ndon, England, Nov. 13, 1873. 

I ' r Bot7T9 Plioi Chapkl, (A very large church formerly occupied by the Rev. 

(Then preaching in London.) This learned and popular exponent of physi- 
oontinning his interesting lectures on the favorite theme, where " his 
home." Every night he has been well patronized, and the 
been literally crowded; and we are not a little surprised to find that such a sub- 
jeol oonld attraol *<> Intelligent and appreciative an audience. Whether it was the interest 
in the inbiect itself, or the fame of the lecturer, we cannot say, but no one went away with- 
out being both profited and delighted. Dr. Simms thoroughly knows his subject, and if we 
i thia fad in his face, he proves it beyond all question by the manner 
*'* '"" h a ndlin g it. We have attended many of these lectures already, and have never 
lh. v are alwayt full of useful information, teach us what to 
* Yt " ; Wow, are full of racy anecdote and spices of true American humor, and 

an was tobeexprct.-d. are received with universal enthusiasm. At the close the lecturer 
exam UK l the : the h< ada) of several ladies and gentlemen from the audience, and 

delineations of their characters, dispositions and histories, and bv the concur- 
noay of all who passed under review, these delineations were very accurrate. Dr. 



AMEBIC AN PRESS OPINIONS. 75 

Simms has carved out for himself a great mission, he has admirably qualified himself for 
it, and we wish him much success in his labors. We ought not to omit to say that every 
evening several ladies and gentlemen from the audience mount the platform, and the keen 
and practiced eye of the learned physiognomist, tells them not only their characters, but to 
a great extent, their daily occupation and their personal history ; so the young people have 
as much fun as they can desire. Dr. Simms attends daily at South Place Chapel to give 
consultations on character, and has his hands full, so eager is the demand for his profes- 
sional services. — Northern and Eastern Examiner, London, March, 1875. 



AMERICAN PRESS OPINIONS. 
Selected from Hundreds of a Similar Character, 

His lectures were entertaining and called full houses each night. He examined one-half 
of our citizens while in our town. — Bardstoicn Gazette, Ky , 1858. 

Dr. Simms is meeting with gratifying success. His course of lectures is truly interest- 
ing and should be heard by all. —Republican, Doxcagiac, Mich., 1864. 

The lectures of Dr. Simms are well attended and well spoken of. His Physiognomical ex- 
aminations give much satisfaction. — Democrat, Huntington, Ind., 1856. 

Dr. Simms, is drawing crowds nightly to the Presbyterian Church. Go to hear him and 
be convinced of the truth of Physiognomy, as all those who have listened seem convinced 
and well pleased. — Prairie Gazette, Illinois, 1857. 

Dr. J. Simms has been lecturing to large audiences in this city. His lectures are sci- 
entific and relate to medicine. They have awakened great interest. Dr. Simms makes a 
lecturing tour West this spring. — Harper's Weekly. 

During the week Dr. Simms has lectured before the largest audiences ever assembled in 
onr Town Hall. He is a ready, fluent and pleasant speaker, and handles the subject he 
treats of in a masterly manner. — Ingersoll Chronicle, Canada, 1863. 

Lectures by Dr. Simms. — During the past two weeks Dr. Simms of New York, has been 
delivering a course of lectures in this city on Physiognomy and Physiology, which have 
drawn crowded audiences and afforded much instruction and amusement. — Boston Daily 
Advertiser. 

Dr. Simms' Lecture to the old Medical School last evening was well-attended, nearly 
four hundred of the students, and several of the professors being present. The Doctor has 
been invited to remain in the city to give other lectures. — Daily News, Nashville, Ten- 
nessee, 1859. 

Dr. Simms has during the past week been delivering some very interesting and instruc- 
tive lectures at the Court House on Physiognomy and Physiology. His theory is entirely 
his own, and is of the character that makes it instructive as well as interesting. — Kalamazoo 
Gazette, Michigan, 1864. 

• Dr. Simms is very happy in his readings of character by the physiognomy. To our 
knowledge he has made several decided hits from a lightning survey of a subject's face. An 
elaborate chat by the Doctor cannot fail to assist one in coming to a correct knowledge of 
one's self.— Daily Los Angeles Herald, California, Feb. 27, 1879. 

Lecture To-night, by the acute, vigorous and amusing speaker, Dr. Simms, of New 
York, who stands pre-eminent in America and Great Britain as a practical and scientific 
physiognomist, at "Turner Hall. The fun alone is worth twice the price charged for the 
evening's entertainment. — Daily Gazette, Galena, III., Sept. 12, 1878. 

Dr. Simms, of New York, has been entertaining the denizens of Elizabethtown for a week 
past, with a series of physiognomical and physiological lectures. He handled his subject 
well and was eminently successful in the delineation of the character of those who pre- 
sented themselves for that purpose. He had large audiences during his whole course. 

Dr. Simms has been lecturing in the Town Hall to crowded audiences nightly. His 
happy hits and extensive apparatus of paintings and engravings, of all grades of talent, con- 
spire, together with his experience as lecturer, to call forth the older classes who are not ac- 
customed to attend lectures. May he soon visit our town again.— Daily Post, Wis., 1855. 

As a scientific and amusing lecturer Dr. Simms has very few equals. His literary attain- 
ments enable him to classify, elucidate and synthetize the subjects of his discourse in an in- 
structive and attractive manner. The entire course of lectures have drawn densely crowded 
audiences, and much good will eventually result as the ultimate of this moral course of lec- 
tures. — N. Y. Independent, 1854. 

Lectures,— Dr. Simms, the popular lecturer, is meeting with universal success in our 
town this week, whilst delivering a course of entertaining lectures upon the Laws of Life, 
Manhood, Human Nature, and the way in which to improve health and character. Each 
day of this week the hall has been visited both day and evening by very many of our best 
citizens, and the interest continues to increase. The tendencies of the lectures are moral 
and intellectual— teaching the faults of others that we might shunt hem; also pointing out 
the virtues of others that we might imitate them.— Forum, Bucyrus, 0., 1865. 



76 AMERICAN PRESS OPINIONS. 

The lecture of Dr. Simms last evening drew a full house, and the prospects are they will 
continue to draw throughout the course. This evening the lecture is upon the important 
subject of physiognomy and character reading. A knowledge of physiognomy is exceed- 
ingly useful to persons in any position in life, and none are more capable of giving instruc- 
tionH in the science than Dr. Simms. — Adrian limes, Mich., 1865. 

Our citizens aro more favorably impressed with the science of physiognomy and its liberal 
advocate Prof. Simms, than ever before. The masterly manner in which he handles the 
subject in connection with his physiological and anatomical bodily preparations, together 
with bis collection of skulls of all grades of intelligence, and paintings of all shadings of 
character, make the subject full of interest. — Commercial, New York, 1854. 

Dr. J. Simms.— This gentleman has been lecturing at the Town Hall for a week past to 
large and interested audiences. His principal subject has been Physiognomy, and he has 
handled it with a masterly hand. His last, on Wednesday evening, was a lecture to young 
men. We learn that the Doctor anticipates visiting Farmersville, and we cordially recom- 
mend him to the patronage of that place. — Germantown (Ohio) Independent, 1859. 

Lecturk. — Dr. J. Simms lectured last evening at the Attorney-street Methodist Protest- 
ant Church, on the Nervous System and Mind, to a large audience. The lecture was 
amusing and interesting. The Doctor having been a popular lecturer for several years, is 
eminently qualified to make a lecture entertaining. The late discoveries in the system 
were clearly set forth by paintings and illustrations. — N. Y. Sun, Feb. 18, 1869. 

Unparalleled Lecturer. — Word upon word, line upon line, verse upon verse, page upon 
page, could no more than supply space to give Dr. Simms justice in the excellence of his 
lectures upon human character, and the structure and composition of human life. Defi- 
nite and clear, brief and pointed, applicable and beautifully illustrated are all his remarks 
of the animal kingdom — especially that of man. — Daily Economist, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
Oct. 30, 1878, 

Lectures. — The lectures of Professor Simms, on the subject of Physiognomy, have been 
quite well attended, and very interesting. His examinations are very satisfactory indeed, 
unfolding the true character, in every case, in the minutest particulars, leaving but little 
room to doubt the truth of Physiognomical science. The Prof, is very much of a gentleman, 
and in his deportment, and treatment of his favorite subject has made a very favorable im- 
pression. — Hancock Jeffersonian, Findlay,Ohio, 1861. 

Dr. Simms, the distinguished physiognomist, will lecture on the Human Face, at the 
Congregational Church to-night. This is the third week of Dr. Simms highly instructive 
course of lectures in Sacramento. The large church has been literally crowded each night, 
and his lectures are decidedly amusing and original. His descriptions of the faces of 
strangers evidence his wonderful skill and the definite accuracy of the science he has dis- 
covered.— Daily Bee, Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 13, 1879. 

Physiognomy.— Dr. Simms lectured on the above subject at Recreation Hall last evening 
to a fine audience. The doctor is a very entertaining speaker and understands thoroughly 
the principles of physiognomy. He reads character thoroughly, and his amusing compari- 
sons are very enjoyable. Several ladies and gentlemen went on the stage by invitation, and 
the lecturer correctly read their characters, to the infinite amusement of the audience. — 
Daily Leader, Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter., Nov. 8, 1878. • 

SIMMS.— Dr. Simms, the well known lecturer, will deliver the third lecture of the 
course (his evening in Jackson Hall, upon the subject] of Physiognomy. His system is 
in -w and original, he being the oldest lecturer upon this* science in America. The subject is 
well Illustrated by the means of paintings and examinations of living Physiognomies. He, 
being I clear and impressive speaker, entertains his hearers in an able and instructive man- 
Co and bear him.— Daily citizen, Jackson, Mich., 1865. 
Phthoonomt. Dr. Siintns, who has been lecturing for a week past in the city, to 
crowded houses, on the subject of Physiogonomy, has just closed his course. He has been 
ream ited by a lane number of medical and business men of the city to repeat the course, 
and has signified his intention of doing so at some future time. The lectures have been 
w.-ll patronised by the public, and will be sure to be when the Doctor visits us again.— 
:■< Times. 
P I u I A v. ry large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen attended Dr. Simms' 

l.<t«.n on the N. rvous System lust night. It was certainly both interesting and instructive. 
ine doctor will lector* to-night on " Physinogoiny," etc. All those who have not already 
• SO, Mould by all means attend these lectures. Thev tend to elevate the mind and 
unpiwe the understanding. Dr. s. [| an educated, scientific man, and knows how to handle 
«»h hu in hrnncisco Daily Exami 

ass on Phtmoomomt.- During the past two weeks the citizens of Boston 

Md the pli asUM of attending a course of Dr. Simms' lectures on Physiognomy. The 

r, and, being presented in an earnest and amusing manner, it takes like "hot 

i Ol life and the true road Of progress which the Doctor's lectures point out 

™ rtccu iiarly bn own. We wish him all success elsewhere, as he has had in this city, and 

wish bis speedy .-turn to the " Hub. 11 - Dotty Evening Traveler, of Boston. 

i r. Btmme concluded last night one of the most interesting and instructive courses of 
i. .tuns ev r d, I. v. red ,,. tins ,ity, and through them has given an impetus to Physiogno- 



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mical investigation that cannot fail of lasting good. They were scientific, practical and 
amusing, and elicited the warmest commendations from the large and intelligent audiences 
that attended them. We bespeak for these lectures, in whatever community delivered, 
crowded— as they are sure to be — and delighted audiences. — Indianapolis Journal. 

Physiognomy. — A novel and instructive course of lectures on this ill- understood science 
is now being delivered by Dr. Simms, whose striking delineations of character and start- 
ling revealments of the connectiou between form and character are creating a great amount 
of interest in this community. The lectures are free from all objectionable features, not 
being intended as advertisements for medical practice. We recommend all to hear him who 
would add to their stock of knowledge of human nature.— Chicago Tribune, January, 1868. 

Db. Simms.— This talented lecturer on the Science of Physiology and Physiognomy 
has during the past week delivered a very satisfactory course of lectures on these sciences 
to large audiences each evening. The doctor's descriptive powers are of the most brilliant 
kind, and his delineations of character strikingly marked and accurate. Never in this town 
has there been so great an interest taken in a continued course of lectures as on this occa- 
sion, and has increased as they have drawn to a close. — Woodstock Sentinel, Canada, 1863. 

Scientific Lectures. — Dr. J. Simms of New York, has been lecturing to the medical 
students of the Old Medical School in this city. Last evening four hundred students and 
several professors were present at his lecture, and all speak very complimentary of his 
efforts. The late discoveries in Anatomy and Physiology which the doctor presents are 
charmingly well supported by sound logic and stern facts. The Doctor has been invited 
by a large delegation of citizens to extend his lectures in this city. — Nashville Daily Gazette, 
1859. 

The Lecture Last Evening.— Dr. Simms' lecture on " Physiogonomy" drew an au- 
dience last evening which crowded the Academy of Music in every part. The lecture was 
instructive and highly interesting, much more so than many of those present had antici- 
pated from the subject. This evening the Doctor will deliver another at the same place, on 
the subject of "Physiognomy and Pathognomy," and doubtless will receive from the 
public that patronage which his excellent talents deserve.— Sacramento Daily Union, March 
25, 1870. 

Scientific Lecture. — The renowned and eloquent lecturer, Dr. J. Simms, has been lec- 
turing on Physiognomy, during the past two weeks, in the city of Boston, to large and at- 
tentive audiences. The lectures are not intended as advertising mediums for the sale of 
quack medicines, or as ear ticklers to catch pennies with, but are given to advance science 
and the general welfare of mankind. The lectures are largely illustrnted with paintings, 
and being largely interspersed with wit and humor makes them very attractive.— Waverly 
Magazine, of Boston. 

The Doctor is one of the most able, capable, scientific and accomplished lecturers we 
ever listened to. As an agreeable and entertaining speaker, he has few equals, and pos- 
sesses great versatility of talent, enabling him to hold his audience spell-bound by the 
magic of a rich, varied and peculiar style of eloquence, at once instructive, entertaining 
and captivating. His examinations gave unusual satisfaction for their critical correctness. 
The house was crowded every night by an appreciative audience, who regret his departure. 
—Galesburgh Herald, Mich., 186-4. 

Lecture. — The Protestant Methodist Church in Attorney-street, near Eivington, was 
filled last evening by a most respectable audience, drawn thither to listen to a lecture on 
the Nervous System, by Dr. J. Simms. The doctor was aided in the delivery of his dis- 
course by numerous diagrams, showing the action of the nerves in various portions of the 
body. He dwelt for some time on the composition and conformation of the human brain, 
and illustrated how it governed the whole system of nerves. His lecture was highly in- 
structive throughout,— New York Times, Feb. 18, 1869. 

Dr. J. Simms, the renowned Physiognomist of New York, has delivered a course of 
lectures at Piatt's Hall in this city, which have proved a perfect success, as they have been 
attended by an immense audience of ladies and gentlemen every evening. The lectures 
are illustrated with a very large collection of oil paintings of noted men and women who live 
in the world's history. The lectures are moral, amusing, scientific and instructive. During 
each day the Doctor had an unusual business in the way of charts and examinations, which 
proved very satisfactory to those who obtained them. — San Francisco Evening Bulletin, 1869. 

Db. J. Simms' Lectures. — Dr. J. Simms, a pleasing and instructive lecturer, and a phy- 
siognomist of fine ability, has been lecturing for several nights past in this city to crowded 
houses. The doctor discusses the late discoveries in anatomy and physiology in a charm- 
ing manner, and supports his assertions by sound logic and facts. His addresses are cha- 
racterized with an originality and independence that are bound to insure him success wher- 
ever he goes, and in leaving Pekin he will carry with him the best wishes of the large and 
delighted audiences that have thronged the lecture room each evening. — The Pekin Register, 
IU. 

Dr. Simms' Lectures. — Seldom, if ever, have our citizens been treated to so enjoyable 
and instructive a series of lectures as were those of Dr. J. Simms, delivered in the Court 
House, during the greater part of the past two weeks. The Doctor, in his dissertations on 
Physiognomy, has a style which fairly holds his audience spell-bound, and he clinches all 



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his arguments with such facts as none can dispute. His delineations and charts of charac- 
ter are the most truthful and correct of any we ever saw, and our only regret is that he and 
his portrait gallery (the largest in the country), and other curiosities, cannot remain 
rmanent institution of our city.— Tazioell Co. Republican, III. 

The Lm-tuke. -Last night Dr. Simms' lecture upon " How to rise in the world " was 

largely attended by an appreciative and well-pleased audience . The methods and illustra- 

l of physical and mental development were varied and convincing, and the caustic hints 

Bi social shortcomings were, like Woodworth's recollections, "painfully pleasing." 

Doctor cielineated the character of several well-known ladies and gentlemen, to the 

entire satisfaction and hilarious amusement of the audience. This evening, at the same 

the Methodist church— the Doctor will deliver the third lecture of the series. — Daily 

Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City, Nevada, March 29th, 1878. 

Leg-tube. — Dr. Simms, the eminent physiognomist and lecturer, is creating an unusual 
interest amougst the intellectual people of Chicago by his lectures. The attendance is large 
and increasing each evening. The high moral tone of these lectures, together with their 
agreement with Christianity and the Bible, give to them a high standing in the estimation 
of our citizens. The complete manner in which these lectures are illustrated with paintings 
and apparatus has never been equaled by any previous course in this city. The scholarly 
attainments and noble abilities of the Doctor will insure him an excellent success wherever 
he may please to travel or remain. — Chicago Evening Journal, Jan. 1868. 

Db. Simms' Reasoning. — The following reasoning, given in clear, forcible, concise and 
practical language, bespeaks the wisdom of Dr. Simms, the learned and careful reader of 
character, why one should have a chart of the character: 

" Because the months or years you spend at the common school, academy or college, 
never taught you whether you were fitted for a lawyer, doctor, preacher, artist, mechanic, 
surveyor, merchant, clerk, speculator, or anything else; years of experience may teach you, 
but you do not desire to lose years in making the discovery when you can learn the whole 
I in ten minutes.'* — Daily Economist, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Oet. 29, 1878. 
s ikntific Lectures. — Dr. Simms has been lecturing all this week in Brewster Hall, on 
the exhaustion subject of man. No lecturer has ever visited New Haven who has given so 
many original ideas as Dr. Simms. He works for the good of mankind, and his fearless 
and independent manner has won him a perfect success in this city. The attendance each 
evening (several evenings have been rainy), has been very large, and his audience gave the 
St attention to every word and gesture. Hundreds have obtained charts and delinea- 
tions of character. The Doctor will leave with the best wishes of the citizens of New 
Haven, for his suecess in the great and good work in which he so nobly labors. — New 
Daily Register, 1868. 
Pbof. Simms, of New York, has been entertaining the denizens of Elizabethtown for a 
pasi with a series of Physiognomical and Physiological lectures. We have been pre- 
sented by business from attending, but learn from those who did attend that he handled his 
Bubject well, and that he was eminently successful in the delineation of the character of those 
wh<» presented themselves for that purpose. He had large audiences during his whole course. 
— &ZJ tabethtown Democrat, Ky. 

Bui OttSFUL Lectubes. — Dr. Simms was again greeted by a full house last evening at Li- 
brary Hall. He is a man who has traveled over the entire world, and has a mind replete 
with scientific information, gleaned from extensive observation and study. He is a great 
mimic, and never allows his audience to get weary. The most exciting part of the enter- 
tainment is at the close of each lecture, when he reads at sight of the individuals present, 
their turn character, habits, eccentricities and predilections. After the lecture a large num- 
I ladies came upon the stage, and their characters were accurately read by the Doctor, 
ral gentlemen were as accurately described as though he had known them from 
Ihood— The Newark Morning Register, X. J., 1875. 
Dl Simms, the Physiognomist, gave his final lecture here last night, and, as usual, the 
burcta was crowded with an intelligent and highlv appreciative audience. Truly, 
'i entertaining and facile speaker, and well handles a subject of which he is 
master. This gentleman very conclusively shows that there is a great deal in 
: close observation, patient study /and attention to many details from 
oeral principles, Dr. Simms has made himself an* accomplished 
mist, and has demonstrated the fact night after night certainly, here in Dubuque. 
1,1 " m be tailed m reading persona to perfection. Be maybe commended to 

,1 " I Daily Thins, Dubytque, Iowa, i s Ts. 

Dr. Simms lectured on physiognomy at Tura-Verein Hall last 

• lienw Interesting, instructing and entertaining to every hearer 

lingly able lecture. He- is noowQnary lecturer. He has studied his 

I) . A., ii, mi. aie gallery of life-size paintings form an attractive study for 

hour or two, ss well as affording ■ range for illustrations for several thotu- 

Q8 of faces. His lecture to night will be on the Features and 

i to be highly entertaining, original and instructive. Dr. simms 

; '■ iu ; the ablest living reader of the human face. Dr. Simms not 

hem-, but entertains them hugely.— Daily BtraXd, Los Angeles, Cali- 



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Lecttjbes. — During several evenings of this week Dr. Simms has been entertaining and 
instructing an increasing audience of our best citizens with scientific lectures upon physi- 
ognomy and physiology. These lectures contain a vast amount of information upon the 
laws of life; the manner in which to live to regain health if lost, and how to retain good 
health if one is fortunate enough to be its possessor, etc. The Doctor's descriptive powers 
are most practical, earnest and clear. The sarcasm which he aims at the vices and 
follies of the age is scathing in the extreme; his varied and peculiar style of delivery serv- 
ing to enchain, instruct and amuse his audience, thereby serving to increase the interest 
and attendance each evening. His immense gallery of life-size paintings serves to illustrate 
the subjects of which he treats, in a masterly manner. Go, hear, see and learn. — " Salem 
Journal," Ohio, 1868. 

Db. Simms. — This gentleman commenced his course of lectures in the Town Hall, on 
Monday evening. The hall is well covered with excellent portraits of celebrated individ- 
uals, well worthy a visit themselves. The hall on Monday and last evening was filled to 
its utmost capacity, a great number being compelled to stand. Dr. Simms's lectures are 
clear and interesting, and all his positions are well sustained by abundant proof, deduced 
from the principles of science. With a correct knowledge of his subject, he combines a 
pleasing faculty of imparting that knowledge to others, and throws around physiognomy a 
dignity that ignorant empirics have done much to detract from. His delineations of 
character convince the most skeptical that physiognomy may be utilized, and is not an idle 
study. His public examinations were loudly applauded and acknowledged correct. — lnger- 
soll, Inquirer, Canada, May 3, 1865, 

Db. Simms* Lectukes. — Dr. Simms, the eminent physiognomist and eloquent and 
amusing lecturer, delivered, on Tuesday evening, the opening lecture of his course in this 
city at Phoenix Hall, before one of the largest and most intelligent audiences ever assem- 
bled in Waukegan, and fully sustained his reputation as an original thinker; a close and 
practical observer; a forcible and powerful, as well as amusing, speaker — and established 
his claims to pre-eminence as a physiognomist. At each of his succeeding lectures the hall 
has been filled with attentive and interested listeners, and the excitement is on the increase. 
These lectures are not mere rhetorical displays, filled with unmeaning generalities, and 
elaborating fine spun theories. They abouud iu Important truths and suggestions, plainly, 
boldly and fearlessly set forth; intended in their application to improve the mental, moral 
and physical man; and are so copiously interspersed with humorous and amusing delinea- 
tions and anecdotes, as to make them in the highest degree instructive and entertaining. 
This evening the lecture will be peculiarly interesting; the subject being — " Nervous Sys- 
tem and Mind," and affords a wide field for the display of the Doctor's powers of illustra- 
tion and mimicry. Monday evening will conclude the course here, and we advise all to avail 
themselves of this opportunity to enjoy a rich treat. An immense collection of oil paintings, 
anatomical and natural curiosities are iu the hall, and invite the examination of those who 
love the beautiful and curious. — Waukegan Paper, Illinois. 

Db. Simms, the Renowned Physiognomist, in San Fbancisco. — Dr. J. Simms, the most fam- 
ous physiognomist of the age, is delivering his third course of lectures in this city, on " Hu- 
man Character, and how to Read it in the Face." Several evenings, long before the lecture 
commenced, standing room was at a premium, yet that vast concourse of people remained 
attentive and entertained throughout the entire lecture. The walls of the spacious hall are 
instinct with life, for wherever we turn our eyes we see the representation in oil of some 
individual who has rendered his life a blessing and benefit, or another who has aroused the 
contempt and indignation of the world. The grand collection of portraits are the fiuest and 
most interesting we have ever seen exhibited by any traveling lecturer, Dr. Simms is a 
pleasant and eloquent speaker, and never fails to instruct and please his audience. No 
lecturer has ever aroused deeper interest, or more thoroughly interested and entertained an 
audience, on Human Character, in San Francisco. At his lectures one can learn and laugh 
at the same time. His lectures on human character, as manifested in the face and form of 
mankind are, by far, the best to which it has ever been our pleasure to listen. The more 
he lectures in this city, the larger audience he draws, and the more friends gather around 
him. In fact he is literally crowded by day callers who are anxious to hear what the astute 
physiognomist has to say of their faces, character, health, and vocationary adaptations, etc., 
etc. Dr. Simms will remain this week, and when he departs will leave thousands of friends- 
who will be exceedingly anxious to accord him a hearty welcome when he returns again. — 
Pierce's Magnetic Journal, San Francisco Cal., Feb , 1878. 

Dr. Simms' Lsctubes.— Dr. Simms, the celebrated physiognomist, who has,been lectur- 
ing to crowded houses this week at Bradley's Academy, is proving himself an 'interesting, 
amusing and instructive talker on the subject of the human form, characteristics, etc. Last 
evening he spoke to a large and delighted audience upon the subject of "wrinkles, chin, hand- 
shaking, address," etc, and in our mind it was the most interesting lecture he has thus far 
delivered. The Doctor is a perfect mimic, and delights and amuses an audience in an eminent 
degree. 

The speaker said that a fine chin was much preferable to a fine forehead, although both. 
would be desirable. Some of the finest intellects of the world were men who had retreat- 
ing foreheads. Five persons in Edinburgh, who were born idots, had as large, good shaped 



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foreheads as anyone would wish to see. Our greatest inventors have retreating foreheads. 
Proportion is the great secret of success mentally. A large head does not necessarily indi- 
cate power. The speaker once measured a commonplace farmer's head, who had only an 
ordinary amount of intellect, and yet had a circumference of twenty-five inches, and 
another whose measurement was twenty-five and one-half inches. Spurgeon's head mea- 
sures twenty-two and one-half inches. 

The broad square forehead indicates order. Ossian E. Dodge is a good example of a 
very orderly man. Henry Ward Beecher lacks order. He will go to his pulpit and throw 
his hat or his coat just where it happens. Some ladies are neat but not orderly, and some 
are orderly but not neat. Some will wash their dishes clean, but will put them away in 
disorder, others will set them away carefully in rows but you may take your thumb-nail 
and scratch some of the remains of the meal from them. As a rule, persons having fine 
hair are neat. The hog has exceedingly coarse hair, and is perfectly contented when wal- 
lowing in the dirt.— Council Bluffs Nonpareil Daily, Iowa, Oct. 24, 1878. 

Du. Joseph Simms, Distinguished Physiognomist. — While many of those who profess 
to read " the mind's construction in the face " are professional charlatans, there appear now 
and then men of physiognomical genius whose instinctive knowledge of character has been 
assisted by extensive observation and patient thought. Such men were Porta, Tischbein, 
Lavater, Spurzheim and Campanella, and of this class is Dr. Joseph Simms, who to-day 
has no living equal as a practical and scientific physiognomist. Both sides of his 
family are of English descent. At twelve years of age he commenced the study of mathe- 
matics and the natural sciences under the guidance of one of the best of mothers and an in- 
telligent and well-read father. When but eight years of age he had indicated the natural 
bent of his talents by,a habit of measuring the features of his companions, and by making 
extemporaneous speeches in his solitary walks. 

With a mind and body strengthened by close study in Winter and farm-work during 
the Summer months, he grew to manhood and began his public career by lecturing and 
school-teaching. With a view to still further preparing himself for his chosen science of 
physiognomy, he now entered the New York University, and, after having taken the degree 
of Doctor of'Medicine, he devoted himself with enthusiasm to lecturing upon his favorite 
theme. Since 1854 he has been constantly engaged in promulgating the knowledge of phy- 
siognomy from the rostrum. 

Recognizing the fact that he whose study is mankind should observe all the types of hu- 
man nature, Dr. Simms explored every section of the United States and Canada, and in 1872 
visited the Old World. In London he lectured successfully for fifty-two nights before pop- 
ular audiences, and also addressed several scientific societies. From many of the English 
scientists he received a hearty welcome, and he made the personal acquaintance of Huxley, 
Lyell, Spencer, Darwin, Lubbock. Professor Richard Owen, Lord Amberly, Dr. J. Kaines, 
C. 0. G. Napier, and other eminent men. After visiting Europe, he completed his tour 
by extensive travels in Asia and Africa. On returning to England he published a large work 
on Physiognomy, entitled "Nature's Revelations of Character," which has been well re- 
ceived. He has also published a "Book of Scientific Lectures," "A Physiognomical 
Chart," and many fugitive contributions to the popular and scientific press. Dr. Simms is 
a keen observer and an original thinker, and his agreeable and instructive lectures on phy- 
siognomy have done much to awaken a general interest in the subject. As a public speaker 
he is clear, humorous, forcible, and at times, eloquent, and in private life he is esteemed 
for his genial and gentlemanly manners, and his high moral character." — Frank Leslie's Il- 
lustrate! X> irspaper, Sept. 14, 1878. The same paper gave Dr. Simms' portrait. 

How to Rise in the World. — It is safe to say that of the several hundred persons who 
assembled at Central Hall last evening to listen to Dr. Simms' lecture on " How to Rise in 
the World," none left the hall at its conclusion dissatisfied either with themselves or with the 
lecture. It was an evening profitably spent, and if those who attended are wise enough to 

Eroflt by the instruction received and to act upon the practical advice given them, they will 
e healthier and better men and women in the future. Dr. Simms has devoted the best part 
of ii life-time exclusively to the subjects upon which he lectures. He has traveled profes- 
sionally through every civilized country on the globe; and he has the rare faculty of im- 
I'litin : th< results of his extensive observations without pedantry or offensive egotism, but 
in a Ktyl. thai pleases and deeply interests all. The hints given are especially important to 
thSTOnng. A very entertaining feature of the Doctor's lectures are his character readings 
at the olose. In delineating the characteristics mental and physical, of those who accept 
hin invitation to step upon the stsi^e for public examination, he is no respecter of persons, 
and worn, tine - tells the truth ri.^ht out. One young man got a severe scoring last night. — 

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reader •will peruse it with sustained interest, and the scientific student can hardly fail to receive from it a 
stimulus to engage in a research at once practically useful and thoroughly entertaining.— The Edinburgh 

B are not new in the fullest sense, unless, as is the case with the work in hand, they 6et forth new 
-discoveries, and give expression to hitherto uuwritten thoughts. Dr. simms, besides affecting consummate 
arrangement of materials, clothes his new thoughts and remarkable discoveries in clear, manly, and logical 
language. Successfully avoiding egotism and intolerance, the work is characterized by devotion to charity, 
honesty, and truth throughout, bespeaking the author's possession of a mind of a thoroughly independent 
cast, and completely emancipated from previous authority. Most of the volume is taken up with terse and 
graphically written sketches of those forms, laces, attitudes, and movements of men and animals by which 
character is revealed, the whole being systematized in accordance with the human structure. The qualities 
and assimilation of food occupy one chapter, which demonstrates how the very nature of the animal or 

table substances consumed is engrafted in the mind and body of the consumer ; and how, by a judicious 

. e of aliment, vicious tendencies may be suppressed or controlled. An article on the rearing of youth, 
which is appropriately illustrated with engravings of adults and juveniles, is pregnant with in formation for 
the parents of youog families ; while that on tho localizing of faculties in the author's usual logical and 
incisive style, shows how entirely his ideas are under command. In short the physiological acumen of this 
work, its high tone, its display of mental vigor, and its imposing array of facts, arguments, and deductions, 
forming a substantial system of intellectual science and practical physiognomy, cannot fail to ensure for its 
Author enduring distinction and well-merited renown, while, at the same time, conferring upon all classes 
of society benefits of Inestimable value.— /rum, London. 

The science of Physiognomy, of which this work forms a complete and exhaustive exposition, has 
attra. otlon and enlisted the sympathies of philosophers of all ages, from the earliest dawning of 

Greek civilization down to the present day. Much has be< u written on the subject by ancient and modern 
writers; but whether from lack of perseverance, or of that quality of minute observation which must be 
brought to bear upon the subject, no one has previously succeeded in thoroughly and correctly delineating 
the human faculties with tln-ir co rres p onding outward facial or corporeal signs or equivalents. To accom- 
plish this requires a peculiarly subtle and varied combination of mental endowments, together with social 
which comparatively few hud themselves in a position to enj >y The whole of these desiderata 
seem to have combined in forming the character of, and offering the requisite facilities to, the gifted author 
of the remarkable work we have at this moment under consideration. Fully twenty years ago, Dr. minims 
dedicated himself to the grand work of which the present year has witnessed the consummation. These 
twenty years hav< in unremitting study of Nuture, and more especially of Human Nature, and the 

result has been ti t a great Dumber of hitherto unsuspected' faculties, with the outward signs by 

which they may be i lentifled. The learned author has emerged from these hitherto unknown or imperfectly 
know: iden with the spoils of scientific knowledge, and his book may be compared to a map, 

■ t down with a clearness and amplitude of detail which cannot fail to 
enlist the engrossing luten b1 I all rhe originality of the work is. beyond question, its most remaikable 
feature; and m < \ truck with a breadth of experience wliich ruust have been acquired 

at an enormous exp ml labor and research. The work will 6X0 te no less wonder and admira- 

t.i; at the power 11 ting the prominent principles, 

and < stimating the relative worth Of various co r p o real parts; at its wonderfully skillful arrangement of ma- 
se and yt t felicitous language wliich forms the setting of this remarkable production. 
Dr. Simms I in a high degree, wit I. r appreciating what is of value, and Of exposing 

what is unsound and defective, In tl - Which have been promulgated in days gone by; and. 

WheTi - the invaluable faculty of condensing into a tew brief pregnant sentences the 

subst ' killful hands, would have taken mai Lncldate. The purely literary 

merits of th< i.lnue have been sufficient to have made it a book for the million. In this respect, 

it mi] parison with the greatest of modern scientific and philosophic writings. There is a 

barm In tie Biyle and arrangement, which at once takes captive the attention, and it may be re- 
turned to again and as ; " with an appetite that "grows by what it feeds upon." Official American Gnzette, 
London, G.B., Ju 

This i f many y t ar>' study and observation, in which Dr. Simms has given to the 

world a wt I of physiognomy, replete with Interesting facts, and Illustrated with nearly 

three hundl He i ffirms si d dt monstrstes that every variation of the human form and counte- 

nance is tin sell-defined causes, ind that we have only to understand these results 

with their principles, and we shall I cipher the hieroglyphics of Nature with unerring certainty. 

'i I no difficulty in admitting for Instance, that if ■ m mself up to bursts of uncontrolled 

n. and the inward storm appear- from time to time in a wrathful countenance, the traces thus marked 

will, through tin rmaneftt and indelible. On the other hand, that the countenance of a man 

habitually kind and gentle will prest nt a calm and unimpssi t. It would not be unreasonable to 

lude that the same natural law would be general and applicable to every emotion, pission, or human 
faculty of mind, and make themselves apparent in the face as well as ang< r, kindness. < tc. Our physiogno- 
mist ■ ut in a broader outline and mote minute detail what a few, if not all, instinctively perceive 
in a general and superficial manner He holds that every emotion of the mind, a- love, hatred, joy, grief, 
intellectual exercise, r< product B and photographs itself in some part of the 
and in proportion as any set of emotions, or mental cuph s the inner man, so will its 
in 1 permanent. He, therefore, formulates these unerring produc- 
tions of Nature's pencil that i . read them with unfaltering certainty. To the vicious this must 
appear a some what unpleasant discovery; but to society in general it must seem highly desirable that 
characters .should be more easily read at Bight than they generally are. The whole fabric of our commer- 
rity, for instance, rests on the degree of reliance which each man can place in the integrity of 
With whom he ha- to do. and it must be of incalculable advantage to the merchant to be able 
unerringly to select those to serve him who are of the stamp suited for his business, and those to deal with 
who are worthy of confidence. The traveller, who wishes to beguile a tedious jouriuy with conveisation 
would be glad to discover at a glance which is the socially-inclined individual, and what kind of topic will 

n cable to him. It must be important to parents in choosing a trade or profession for a son, to know 
certainly what he is most likely to succeed in ; and invaluable to those who are selecting partners for life to 

Bured with respect to the suitability of their choice, though it must be admitted that in these cases 
physiognomy, however valuable, is not the only gui ie, as it is when we meet tho.-e with whom we must 
transact business or interchange social converse without time for lengthened acquaintance. A general 
knowledge of this science would make the impostor and thief so appirent that wickedness would be no 

r marketable, and there would be little chance of a livelihood except for the honest and upright. 
ice, as Dr. Simms intimates, would take place, if the vicious man carried on his face 

aboard res I by every one, an 1 that would be such a check that these unfortunates would be compelled 

b the paths of virtue. This is certain to be when the principles of physiognomy are put into daily 

practice, when they are taught in our schools, and S( ated in the prof, ssorial chairs of our colleges. This 

great originality and comprehensive observations that the practical mind will not 

attempt to controvert. There is also a vigor of style, joined with soun 1 judgment, displayed in the book 

given to the world, and they cannot fail to gain for the "author many warm friends and 

permanent fame. It is one of the best works we know on the subject— popular, thoughtful, and advanced, 

with >ut being rash an 1 speculative. Were it properly appreciated and read, an improvement in our race, 

both physical, mental, and moral, would be the gratifying result. We cannot too btrongly recommend it. 

— The Monetwy and Mining Gazette, London. 



EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES 

DR. SIMMS AND HIS LECTURES IN CREAT BRITAIN. 

I skilled practical physiognomist ' World, London. 

.1 re unabl I to obtain admission. The Leeds Express. 
te i;i an able and interesting manner The Newcastle Daily Journal. 
uomy, and highly interested liis auditors. The Sunderland J 

, L mdon. 
West London Times, London, 1873: 
the mind, ami purity the affections. The Rock (a ret igio us paper), 

m and lace, Dr. Simms stands unequalled in the world. -The Free 

us facts and observations, and are copiously illustrated.— The City 

bsurd in it ift of reading character is of great use. The Saturday 

h physiognomy ought to be the first consideration of this age.— The Cosmopoli- 

. and complete analysis and classification of the powers of the human mind.— Public 

elusion the doctrine that a man's character is seen in his fa 

ie physiognomist, and is known as one of the most interesting popular lecturers we 

tit audiences have attended the lectures, which have been highly successful.— The 

d that the subject is of importance. This work contains evidence of shrewd 

..ut li.u-. — Thi Lancet, Loudon. 
n delivering a course of interesting lectures in the city on " Human Character." The 
j instruct!) tiet(a religious paper), London. 

physiognomist, is delivering a course of very instructive lectures on 
physiology. — The National Food and Fuel Reformer, London. 

ly clever physiognomist, delivered a series of the most instructive and amusing 
Inch it has ever been our pleasure to listen. — Ixion, London. 

Dr. Simms delivered the last of a course of nine lectures in the Freemasons' Hall, George 
vening was delivered to a crowded audience.— The Daily Review of Edinburgh. 

iv. 13, 1873.— "A most interesting oral communication was made by Dr. 
, irk, "ii a flattened skull which he had brought from the Island of Mameluke in the River 
i daily), London. 

I >r J. Simms, the author and physiognomist, is well known as an expert handler 

ii which he touches, and as they concern all classes of the community, this opportunity 

u ■ Kr, ning J\ 

Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Feb. 9, 1875. " Dr. J. Simms also gave hi> 

physical characteristics of the Basques, as he had lately seen them, and testified to the 

and dark elements noted by Prince Lucien Napoleon in his remarks."— The Academy. 

t the m08< successful exponents of this science, and has done more than any of his 

p ipular and attractive. He is the author of a very learned aud elaborate work 

"Nature's Revelations of Character, or Physiognomy Illustrated," which has I 

d in literary and scientific circles, and, though he is by no means unknown in the 

loin, it has prepared for him, on the occasion of his present visit, a specially hearty welcome. 

which society needs much teaching, and none is better able to impart that teaching than 

it in a manner more agreeable and attractive.— Northern and Eastern Examiner, 

ins, the most able ami profound living physiognomist, delivered his fifty- 
in London, on physiognomy and physiology, to an 
veiy portion of the large gallery and the bodj of the spacious room in South 1 
Dr. Simms entered the lecture-room, on the occasion of his last lecture, ; 

tinned until he made h.s bow and was ready to speak, when perft 

■ pting the hearty cheering often elicited by the jokes and quaint 
and marriage, the KubjectH of the lecture. The vast magnetic and i 
tal i. ! ov< r the audience can be obtained by long practice only, with I 

ire contained advanced [dew.— Daybreak, London. March 20, 18 
mms, the learned author of "Natun racter," a work that 

is now delivering a course of lectures on his 
D led two oi those lectures, and have been much interested. Dr. 
i- shown in the lineaments of the face for a lib time, ami 
hait ht the most able aud the most pcpular exponent of physiognomy among li> 

ud abound with tine sullies of rich American humor. The In 

i lie Inclemency of the w. ather, the lectun r draws full 

ugs they may spend it pleasantly 

iui-t : and if tin. v wish to know their real character, and 

Dr. SlmmS Will aid them.— 2 :u<l Mining Gazette, London 

< specially when treated as Hbly ami 

church, formerly occupied by the 

I Station, by Dr. Simms, who seems to poe 

from the conformation of the body, but principally 

ti examined. This -lty, 

ace, as Well as to an acute and constructive Intel* 

uravi 1 its difficulties with case, and 

ult oi his ii j. The lecturer, whom 

Ud, as we are assured that the earth was 
an account of his travels and "i 
tb tie earth'a inhabitants. Lectures of this description would l>e 
- our coluniufl to reports of Buch discourses, which 



